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Zoomastigophora: Rhizomastigida
Xenophyophorea: Pelobiontida: Mastigamoebidae:

Mastigamoeba aspera
Schulze var. cestriensis (Cash, 1905)

Mastigamoeba aspera Genus: Monomastigote, uninucleate, with finger-like pseudopodia; flagellum long and connected with nucleus (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body (locomotive form) about 150-200 μm long, 50 μm wide (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. I, 1905).

Mastigamoeba aspera Schuze var. cestriensis, cell body about 220 μm long, 53 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Shimo-no-koike (pond), Shiga highland, Yamanouchi town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 19, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
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