Family: Small, less than 50 μm; oblong to ovate; ridges faint or absent.
Genus: Body ovate in locomotion; longer than broad; with more or less thick clear zone around granular mass; uninucleate (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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D. guttula 31-38 x 20 μm n. μm φ Japan, 1998
D. anthyllion ? 35 x 23 μm n. μm φ Hidaka Saitama, 2003	D. anthyllion ? 28 x μm n. μm φ O-ike park Yabuki Fukushima, 2003	D. anthyllion or Stiramoeba ? 38 x 25 μm n. μm φ Saitama, 1999	D. anthyllion 38 x 25 μm n. μm φ Japan, 199?
D. anthyllion 28 x 17 μm n. 4 μm φ Riverside green l. Sawara Chiba, 2004	D. anthyllion 27 x 1517 μm n. - μm φ Akigase Saitama Saitama, 2005	D. anthyllion ? 44 x 24 μm n. μm φ Nasu Tochigi, 2001	D. anthyllion ? 30 x 16 μm n. μm φ Kuroiso Tochigi, 2001
D. anthyllion 27 x 19 μm n. μm φ Shiba river near Owada Park Saitama, 2005	D. anthyllion 19 x 15 μm n. μm φ Numa-no-hara m. Madarao highland Niigata, 2005	D. anthyllion μm n. μm φ Nogyo Fureai p. Toride Ibaraki, 2008	D. anthyllion or Striamoeba ? μm Oyumi-ike 1 Chuo-ku Chiba, 2008

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