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Silicoflagellata: Pedinellales (formerly Heliozoea: Ciliophryida)

Actinomonas sp.
Kent 1880

Actinomonas Genus: Spheroid, with a single flagellum and radiating pseudopods; ordinary attached to foreign object with a cytoplasmic process, but swim freely by withdrawing it; nucleus central; several contractile vacuoles (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Actinomonas sp., very thin radiating pseudopods present (indistinguishable on photo microscopy), x 400, x 640, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Actinomonas Actinomonas Actinomonas Actinomonas
a dividinn cell ?, thin radiating pseudopods present
Actinomonas Actinomonas

A. mirabilis Kent: Numerous filopodia; about 10 μm diam., flagellum 20 μm long; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).

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