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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Cashia limacoides
Page, 1967

Cashia Genus: Limax amoebae with hyaline cap usually absent or reduced to slight crescent except upon initiation of new pseudopodium; no villous-bulb uroid (Page, 1976).
Species: 7.5-25.5 μm; tapering from rather broad anterior end to narrow posterior end; lateral pseudopodium seldom produced to change direction (Page, 1976).
Similar Genus -->> Lingulamoeba; Metachaos diminutivum


Cashia sp. (limacoides ?), locomotive 27-28 μm long, 8 μm wide, tapering from rather broad anterior end to narrow posterior end, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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Cashia sp. (?; small cell), x 400, by Y. Tsukii
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Cashia sp. (limacoides ?, x 400), by Y. Tsukii
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