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Actinopoda: Heliozoea: Rotosphaerida
-> Rhizopoda: Filosea: Cristdiscoidida

 Pompholyxophrys sterni
Rainer, 1968

Pompholyxophrys Genus: Genus: Outer mucilaginous envelope with minute colorless spherical granules arranged in concentric layers; nucleus eccentric; pseudopodia long (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Pompholyxophrys sterni Rainer, cell body spherical 18 μm in diam., gelatinous coat 3 μm in thickness, x 400, x 640, Imou bog, Toyohashi city, Aichi Pref., Japan, September 11, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Pompholyxophrys sterni Pompholyxophrys sterni

C. sterni: Body spheroid 12-25 μm diam., with getatinous coat 8 μm thick; axopods extend from central granule (centroplast), each 40 μm long, slender, with rafractile granules along them (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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