Lobosea:
Gymnamoebia:
Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae
Saccamoeba lucens
Frenzel, 1892
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: Broad, 70-100 μm;
uroid smooth or with punctate appearance;
nucleus 6-7 μm;
<20 crystals, 5-15 μm
(Page, 1976). 70-120 μm;
pseudopods, eruptive, hemispheroid; ectoplasm, smooth, thin (?) ;
uroid morulate, when present (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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Saccamoeba sp. (lucens smaller variety ?),
monopodal 38 μm long, pseudopods eruptive & hemispheroid,
nucleus 4 μm in diam., endosome μm in diam.,
hyaline cap present in locomotion, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Saccamoeba sp. (lucens smaller variety ?),
monopodal μm long, pseudopods eruptive & hemispheroid,
nucleus μm in diam., endosome μm in diam.,
hyaline cap present in locomotion, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Saccamoeba sp. (lucens smaller variety ?),
monopodal μm long, pseudopods eruptive & hemispheroid,
nucleus μm in diam., endosome μm in diam.,
hyaline cap present in locomotion, x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
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