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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba clava
Frenzel, 1892

Saccamoeba clava 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 sp. (S. clava ?) multinucleated, cell body 100 μm long, 20 μm wide (when elongated), many nuclei present, nuclei 6 μm in diam., endosome 3 μm in diam., x 640, rice field, Kamishiro, Hakuba village, Nagano Pref., Japan, October 3, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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