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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Acanthapodina: Echinamoebidae

 Filamoeba sp.
Page, 1967

Filamoeba Family: Oval to flattened, or elongated; thin to spiny pseudopodia; endocysts not polygonal; lack opercula (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Pseudopods long, numerous, formed from hyaline zones (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Pseudopods not anastomosing.
Similar species -->> Penardia

Filamoeba sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Kaga city, Ishikawa Pref., Japan, 2000 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640

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