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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae

Mayorella leidyi
Bovee, 1970

Mayorella leidyi Genus: Clear pseudopods, formed from clear anterior, more or less broad margin (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Group II: Subpseudopodia, broadly based mammilliform or nearly hemisperical pyramids. (a: Pseudopods triangular to mammilliform; cell body more or less tubular; locomotive more than 100 μm)
Species: 100-200 μm; L/B to 3; 2 or more pairs of mamilliform pseudopodia from anterior end; short pseudopodia protruding downward from anterior end; 3 or 4 longer, more slender pseudopodida from upper surface of anterior 1/3 of amoeba; no radiate floating form; nucleus 11-12 μm (Page, 1976).


Mayorella sp., stock 62-1a, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Uruguay, collected in 1999, photo in 2000 by Y. Tsukii
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Mayorella sp., stock 62-1, nuclei, cell body 101 μm long, μm wide, x 640, Uruguay, 1999, collected by Takahashi et al., photo by Y. Tsukii
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