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Filosea: Aconchulinida: Reticulosidae

 Penardia sp.
Cash, 1904

Penardia Family & Genus: With branching, anastomosing pseudopodia, mainly at extermities (Illustrated Guide, 1985). When inactive, rounded or ovoid; when active, expanded; 1 or more contractile vacuoles; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Penardia sp. (or Filamoeba ?), extended form (including pseudopodia) 200 or more μm long, x 400, x 640, Japan, 1998 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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