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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba limax
Page, 1967

Saccamoeba limax 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 Frenzel emend. Bovee (or Hartmannella ?), cell body 37 μm long, 8 μm wide, L/W=4.6, x 640, Ko-sumida river near Sakae-bashi (Sakae bridge), Kasukabe city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba

Images of collecting locality: Ko-sumida river near Sakae-bashi (Sakae bridge), Kasukabe city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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