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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Flabellina: Hyalodiscidae

Hyalodiscus sp.
Hertwig & Lesser, 1874, emend Page, 1968

Hyalodiscus Family: More ore less broadly ovate, granular mass postcentral, usually surrounded by clear border.
Genus: Without pseudopods from clear border; body mass as a post-central hump (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Similar Genus -->> Cochliopodium; Vannella;


Hyalodiscus actinophorus (Auerbach, 1865), cell body 56-69 μm long, 44-50 μm wide, nucleus 7 μm in diam., x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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actinophorus: About 40 μm in locomotion; clear border 5-6 wide around centeral, humped, granular body (Illustrated Guide, 1985).


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