Family: Body monopodial; locomotion by slight forward bulging (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Limax amoebae with hyaline cap reduced to shallow crescent or absent in continuing locomotion, though always seen on initiation of pseudopodium; advance often with non-eruptive slight antero-lateral bulging; villous-bulb uroid with more or less rigid fine villi often present (Page, 1976).
Species: Slender, 40-75 μm long; villous bulb common; nucleus 5.8-8.6 μm (Page, 1976). 75-100 μm long; pseudopods, lobate; uroid, many short filaments; ectoplasm clear, thick (?), distinct (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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S. limax var.1 ? 88-100 x μm n. 7.5 μm φ positerior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax var. ? 96 x μm n. 10 μm φ positerior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax var. ? 92 μm n. μm φ positerior raised Shimo-muneoka Shiki Saitama, 2004	S. limax var. 88 μm n. μm φ positerior raised Konpira bridge Shirakawa Fukushima, 2003
S. limax var. ? 80 x μm n. 8 μm φ posterior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax ? or S. limna ? 80 x μm n. 8 μm φ posterior raised n. companion body Hiroshima, 1998 Movies	S. limax var. ? 76-88 x μm n. 8 μm φ posterior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax 72 x 13 μm n. μm φ posterior raised Uruguay, 1999
S. limax 68 μm n. μm φ posterior raised Higusa-numa Hikari Chiba, 2003	S. limax var. ? 63-68 x μm n. 5 μm φ positerior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax var.3 ? 61 x μm n. 7.5 μm φ no uroids ? Japan, 199?	S. limax 60 x μm n. μm φ positerior raised Ishibashi Tochigi, 2004
S. limax var.2 ? 56-69 x μm n. 5 μm φ positerior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax var.2 ? 52 x 13 μm n. μm φ Onnenai Kushiro marsh Hokkaido, 2005	S. limax var.4 ? 36-44 x μm n. 5 μm φ posterior raised Japan, 199?	S. limax var. ? 38-56 x μm n. 4 μm φ no uroids ? Japan, 199?
S. limax 44 μm n. μm φ positerior raised Mizuko Fujimi Saitama, 2003	S. limax 72 x 13 μm n. 7 (5.5) μm φ Uruguay, 1999	S. limax ? 35 x 8 μm n. μm φ Iruma Saitama, 2002	S. limax var.7 ?? 22 x 5 μm n. μm φ no uroids ? Japan, 199?
S. limax ? 52 x 12 μm n. 6 (4-5) μm φ Matto Ishikawa, 2002	S. limax ? 45,65 x μm n. μm φ Numa-no-hara m. Madarao highland Niigata, 2005

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