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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Acanthapodina: Echinamoebidae

Echinamoeba sp.

Echinamoeba Family: Oval to flattened, or elongated; thin to spiny pseudopodia; endocysts not polygonal; lack opercula (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Pseudopods short, spiny, formed from hyaline anterior zones (Illustrated Guide, 1985).


Echinamoeba sp. ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Japan, November 1998, by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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