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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba limna
Bovee, 1972

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: Up to 120 μm; hyaline cap reduced in rapid locomotion; uroidal villi on clear disc or bulb; nucleus 10-15 μm; one contractile vacuole (Page, 1976).
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Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
187 x 15 μm
n. 10 μm φ
positerior raised
Japan, 199?
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
120 x 30 μm
n. μm φ
Kitayama park
Higashi-Murayama
Tokyo, 2004
Movies
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
105 x 37 μm
n. μm φ
Higashi-sano
Hakuba
Nagano, 2004
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
94 x 20 μm
n. 11 (7) μm φ
USA, 1999
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
85 x 23 μm
n. μm φ
Akebono marsh
Tsuchiyu-onsen
Fukushima, 2005
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
75 x 18 μm
n. μm φ
Chaya-numa p.
Fukushima city
Fukushima, 2005
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
75 x 18 μm
n. μm φ
Kaga
Ishikawa, 2000
Saccamoeba
S. limna ?
75 x 20 μm
Lake Shirakaba
Tateshina & Chino
Nagano, 2005


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Saccamoeba limna
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