Lobosea:
Gymnamoebia:
Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae
Mayorella sp.
(Wang, 1932)
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.
(b1: Pseudopods triangular;
locomotive more than 100 μm)
Species:
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Mayorella sp. (very large; bigemma ?),
140 μm long, vesicular nucleus 14 μm diam.,
endosome 9-10 μm, no or less hyaline zone in protruding pseudopods,
x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
M. bigemma (Schaeffer, 1918): Locomotive, 100-450 μm long;
pseudopods, clear, conical 8-90 μm long;
uroid, temporary, morulate; ectoplasm, thin, clear; endoplasm, clear, vesicular, granular;
nucleus, spherical, 10-12 μm;
endosome, 5-6 μm;
crystals, truncated, bipyramidal, 1-2 μm long
(Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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