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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae

Mayorella hohuensis
(Wang, 1932)

Mayorella 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. (c1: Pseudopods broad, cell body flat ellipsoidal; locomotive more than 100 μm)
Species: 80-160 μm; L/B to 8 in moderate to rapid locomotion; pseudopodia hemispherical to broadly conical; nucleus 6 μm (Page, 1976).


Mayorella sp., locomotive μm long, μm wide, nucleus μm diam., x 100, x 200, x 400, Shirasaka, Shirakawa, Fukushima Pref., Japan, October 1999 collected by H. Shiomizu, photo by Y. Tsukii
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