Actinopoda: Heliozoea: Rotosphaerida
-> Rhizopoda: Filosea: Cristdiscoidida
Pompholyxophrys sterni
Rainer, 1968
Genus: Genus: Outer mucilaginous envelope with minute colorless spherical granules arranged in
concentric layers; nucleus eccentric; pseudopodia long (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
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Pompholyxophrys sterni Rainer,
cell body spherical 25 μm in diam., gelatinous coat 4 μm in thickness,
x 400, x 640, rice field, Higashi-sano (near Minami-kamishiro railway station), Hakuba village, Nagano Pref., Japan, October 3, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
C. sterni: Body spheroid 12-25 μm diam.,
with getatinous coat 8 μm thick; axopods extend
from central granule (centroplast), each 40 μm long, slender,
with rafractile granules along them (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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