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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba gorgonia
(Penard, 1902)

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 gorgonia ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, nucleus μm in diam., endosome μm in diam., x 640, Fukada Park, Sanda city, Hyogo Pref., Japan, November 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Saccamoeba gorgonia Saccamoeba gorgonia


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