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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Thecina: Thecamoebidae

 Thecamoeba sphaeronucleolus
(Greefe, 1891) Schaeffer, 1926

Thecamoeba terricola Genus: A flattened ovoid or oblong, with longitudinal surface folds and appearance of thickened 'pellicle'; hyaloplasm a crescent at anterior end with thin extensions toward posterior end along sides; uninucleate (Page, 1976).
Species:

Thecamoeba sp. (sphaeronucleolus ?), cell body 70 μm long, 45 μm wide, L/W=, nucleus 10 μm in diam., endosome 6.5 μm in diam., x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
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