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Filosea: Aconchulinida: Reticulosidae

 Penardia sp.
Cash, 1904

Penardia Family & Genus: With branching, anastomosing pseudopodia, mainly at extermities (Illustrated Guide, 1985). When inactive, rounded or ovoid; when active, expanded; 1 or more contractile vacuoles; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Penardia sp., cell body 20 μm in diam., axopodia about 15-30 μm long, x 640, rice field near Oyomi marsh, Hakuba village, Nagano Pref., Japan, October 3, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Penardia Penardia

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