Genus: Usually limax-like, commonly with villous-bulb uroid; locomotion by steady flow
with occasional slight antero-lateral bulging; floating form with long, blunt, mostly granular pseudopodia;
normally uninucleate (Page, 1976).
Pseudopods do not meld at bases during locomotion; pseudopods not ridged; nucleus spherical
(Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Broadly clavate in locomotion, 200-300 μm long.
Uroid, a semi-permanent bulb or cup with short lobes. Ectoplasm, clear not distinct from endoplasm. Endoplasm, clear, few granules; nucleus spheroidal, 40-60 μm,
sometimes dented, no endosome (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Generally thicker than T. villosa, L/B 2.5-3 (?) (Page, 1976).
Trichamoeba, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii