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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae

Mayorella oclawaha
Bovee, 1970

Mayorella oclawaha 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).


Mayorella oclawaha, cell body 50-69 μm long, many tiny crystals, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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Mayorella (oclawaha ?), locomotive 43 μm long, nucleus 2-3 μm diam., x 400, x 640, by Y. Tsukii
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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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