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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba limax
Page, 1967

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: Slender, 40-75 μm long; villous bulb common; nucleus 5.8-8.6 μm (Page, 1976). 75-100 μm long; pseudopods, lobate; uroid, many short filaments; ectoplasm clear, thick (?), distinct (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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Saccamoeba
S. limax var.1 ?
88-100 x μm
n. 7.5 μm φ
positerior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax var. ?
96 x μm
n. 10 μm φ
positerior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba limax
S. limax var. ?
92 μm
n. μm φ
positerior raised
Shimo-muneoka
Shiki
Saitama, 2004
Saccamoeba limax
S. limax var.
88 μm
n. μm φ
positerior raised
Konpira bridge
Shirakawa
Fukushima, 2003
Saccamoeba
S. limax var. ?
80 x μm
n. 8 μm φ
posterior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax ?
or S. limna ?
80 x μm
n. 8 μm φ
posterior raised
n. companion body
Hiroshima, 1998
Movies
Saccamoeba
S. limax var. ?
76-88 x μm
n. 8 μm φ
posterior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax
72 x 13 μm
n. μm φ
posterior raised
Uruguay, 1999
Saccamoeba limax
S. limax
68 μm
n. μm φ
posterior raised
Higusa-numa
Hikari
Chiba, 2003
Saccamoeba
S. limax var. ?
63-68 x μm
n. 5 μm φ
positerior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax var.3 ?
61 x μm
n. 7.5 μm φ
no uroids ?
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax
60 x μm
n. μm φ
positerior raised
Ishibashi
Tochigi, 2004
Saccamoeba
S. limax var.2 ?
56-69 x μm
n. 5 μm φ
positerior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax var.2 ?
52 x 13 μm
n. μm φ
Onnenai
Kushiro marsh
Hokkaido, 2005
Saccamoeba
S. limax var.4 ?
36-44 x μm
n. 5 μm φ
posterior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax var. ?
38-56 x μm
n. 4 μm φ
no uroids ?
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba limax
S. limax
44 μm
n. μm φ
positerior raised
Mizuko
Fujimi
Saitama, 2003
Saccamoeba
S. limax
72 x 13 μm
n. 7 (5.5) μm φ
Uruguay, 1999
Saccamoeba limax
S. limax ?
35 x 8 μm
n. μm φ
Iruma
Saitama, 2002
Saccamoeba
S. limax var.7 ??
22 x 5 μm
n. μm φ
no uroids ?
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limax ?
52 x 12 μm
n. 6 (4-5) μm φ
Matto
Ishikawa, 2002
Saccamoeba
S. limax ?
45,65 x μm
n. μm φ
Numa-no-hara m.
Madarao highland
Niigata, 2005


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Saccamoeba limax
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