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Filosea: Aconchulinida: Vampyrellidae

Vampyrella sp.
Cienkowsky, 1865

Vampyrella Genus: Algophorous parasites; cytoplasm reddish; pseudopodia tapering, flexible (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Heliozoa-like; endoplasm vacuolated or granulated, with carotin granules; numerous vesicular nuclei and contractile vacuoles; multinucleate cysts, sometimes with stalk; 50-700 μm in diameter (Kudo, 1966).
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Vampyrella sp., cell body rounded up to 50-55 μm long, x 400, x 640, Tega-numa (Lake), Abiko city, Chiba Pref., October 2000, by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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