image_list image_listE

Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Flabellina: Flabellulidae

Flabellula citata
Schaeffer, 1926

Flabellula citata Family: More or less fan-shaped; conical projections or scurs from clear margin.
Genus: Scurs; few subpseudopods formed; clear margin not formed eruptively, shape in locomotion relatively constant (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Locomotive, with clear broad margin anterior; 15-75 μm long, 25-55 μm wide; pseudopods, clear, conical, 5-10 μm long; uroid, fine filaments (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Similar Genus -->> Vannella ; Rosculus


Flabellula citata, cell body 35 μm long, 59 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999, 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
Flabellula Flabellula Flabellula Flabellula


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server