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Filosea: Aconchulinida: Reticulosidae

 Penardia sp.
Cash, 1904

Penardia Family & Genus: With branching, anastomosing pseudopodia, mainly at extermities (Illustrated Guide, 1985). When inactive, rounded or ovoid; when active, expanded; 1 or more contractile vacuoles; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Penardia sp. (or Nuclearia ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, a small pond at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 13, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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