Lobosea:
Gymnamoebia:
Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae
Mayorella leidyi
Bovee, 1970
Genus: Clear pseudopods, formed from clear anterior, more or less broad margin
(Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Group II: Subpseudopodia, broadly based mammilliform or nearly hemisperical pyramids.
(a: Pseudopods triangular to mammilliform; cell body more or less tubular;
locomotive more than 100 μm)
Species: 100-200 μm;
L/B to 3; 2 or more pairs of mamilliform pseudopodia from anterior end;
short pseudopodia protruding downward from anterior end; 3 or 4 longer, more slender pseudopodida from
upper surface of anterior 1/3 of amoeba; no radiate floating form;
nucleus 11-12 μm (Page, 1976).
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Mayorella sp., stock 62-1a,
cell body μm long, μm wide,
x 400, x 640, Uruguay, collected in 1999, photo in 2000 by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Mayorella sp., stock 62-1, nuclei,
cell body 101 μm long, μm wide,
x 640, Uruguay, 1999, collected by Takahashi et al., photo by Y. Tsukii
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