 
 
Lobosea: 
Gymnamoebia: 
Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae
Mayorella oclawaha
Bovee, 1970
|  Genus: Clear pseudopods, formed from clear anterior, more or less broad margin (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Group I: Subpseudopodia, digitiform cones.
(a: Short conical subpseudopodia)
 Species: 30-50 μm long; 
L/B >2; 1-4 pairs of pseudopodia which also occur singly; many tiny crystals; 
nucleus 3.5 μm 
(Page, 1976).
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Mayorella oclawaha, 
cell body 50-69 μm long,  many tiny crystals, 
x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
 50 μm
 50 μm
 100 μm
 100 μm
 150 μm; x 400
 150 μm; x 400
 
 
 
 
Mayorella (oclawaha ?), 
locomotive 43 μm long,  
nucleus 2-3 μm diam., 
x 400, x 640, by Y. Tsukii
 
 
 
 
 
 
M. penardi: 
50-125 (usually > 100) μm; 
L/B to 4.5; with shallow anterior hyaline edge which bears 
several mamilliform pseudopodia; may divide into Y shape in changing direction; floating form usually 
irregularly rounded, very rarely radiate; nucleus 6.5-10 μm 
(Page, 1976).  
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