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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba limax
Page, 1967

Saccamoeba limax Genus: Limax amoebae with hyaline cap reduced to shallow crescent or absent in continuing locomotion, though always seen on initiation of pseudopodium; advance often with non-eruptive slight antero-lateral bulging; villous-bulb uroid with more or less rigid fine villi often present (Page, 1976).
Species: Slender, 40-75 μm long; villous bulb common; nucleus 5.8-8.6 μm (Page, 1976). 75-100 μm long; pseudopods, lobate; uroid, many short filaments; ectoplasm clear, thick (?), distinct (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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Saccamoeba sp. (limax ?), no uroids, monopodal 36-44 μm long, μm wide, hyaline cap present in locomotion,
locomotion by slight forward bulging, no uroids ?, nucleus 5 μm in diam., endosome 2.5 μm in diam., x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba

Saccamoeba (limax), hyaline cap absent, no uroids ?, x 400, x 640, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba Saccamoeba


Saccamoeba limax ?, hyaline cap absent in locomotion, villous uroids, x 1000, by Y. Tsukii
scale 20 μm scale 40 μm scale 60 μm; x 1000
Saccamoeba Saccamoeba


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