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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba sp.
Frenzel, 1892; emend. Bovee, 1972

Saccamoeba 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:
Similar Genus ->> Cashia


Saccamoeba, cell body 29 μm long, 7 μm wide, nucleus μm in diam., endosome μm in diam., x 640, near Momijidani Ootsuribashi (hanging bridge), Shiobara town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, August 22, 2004, by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba


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