Actinopoda: Heliozoea: Rotosphaerida
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Pompholyxophrys exigua
(Hertwig & Lesser 1874) Penard 1904
Genus: Genus: Outer mucilaginous envelope with minute colorless spherical granules arranged in
concentric layers; nucleus eccentric; pseudopodia long (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
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Pompholyxophrys exigua (Hertwig & Lesser) Penard,
cell body spherical, 19 μm in diam.,
x 640, Akebono-yama (mountain) Agricultural Park, Kashiwa city, Chiba Pref., Japan, November 2002 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
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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