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

 Pompholyxophrys sp.
Rainer, 1968

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

Pompholyxophrys sp., cell body spherical, 12 μm diam., getatinous coat 2-5 μm thick, x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? 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
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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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