image_list image_listE

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).
->> Large, small, smaller, smallest varieties


Saccamoeba sp. (limax or related species), monopodal 22 μm long, 5 μm wide, nucleus μm in diam., endosome μm in diam., a contractile vacuole anterior (?), x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba

Saccamoeba sp. (limax or related species), x 400, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server