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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba sp.
Frenzel, 1892; emend. Bovee, 1972

Saccamoeba 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:
Similar Genus ->> Cashia


Saccamoeba sp. ?, cell body broad 36 μm long, 24 μm wide, nucleus 7 μm in diam., endosome 5 μm in diam., x 640, Izumi-no-mori-koen (Fountain forest park), Yamato city, Kanagawa Pref., Japan, March 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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