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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba clava
(Schaeffer, 1926)

Saccamoeba lucens Family: Body monopodial; locomotion by slight forward bulging (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Limax amoebae with hyaline cap reduced to shallow crescent or absent in continuing locomotion, though always seen on initiation of pseudopodium; advance often with non-eruptive slight antero-lateral bulging; villous-bulb uroid with more or less rigid fine villi often present (Page, 1976).

Species: Monopodal, 75-125 μm; pseudopods, more or less eruptive; uroid, temporary, of gnarled filaments, 10-15 μm long; ectoplasm smooth; nucleus spherical 14 μm with endosome distinct 8 μm (Illustrated Guide, 1985).


Saccamoeba clava (or wakulla ?, see below), locomotive 106-125 μm long, pseudopods more or less eruptive, hyaline cap present (!?), uroid of gnarled filaments up to 10 μm long, nucleus 14 μm, endosome 9 μm, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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Saccamoeba clava, locomotive 125 μm long, 31 μm wide, pseudopods more or less eruptive, hyaline cap present (!?), uroid of gnarled filaments up to μm long, nucleus 14 μm, endosome 9 μm, x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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S. wakulla Bovee, 1972: Up to 175 μm (some not exceeding 130 μm); pseudopodia sometimes flattened; distinct hyaline cap in rapid advance; wrinkled villous-bulb uroid; nucleus 3.5-6.5 μm (Page, 1976).


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