Lobosea:
Gymnamoebia:
Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae
Mayorella oclawaha
Bovee, 1970
Genus: Clear pseudopods, formed from clear anterior, more or less broad margin (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Group I: Subpseudopodia, digitiform cones.
(a: Short conical subpseudopodia)
Species: 30-50 μm long;
L/B >2; 1-4 pairs of pseudopodia which also occur singly; many tiny crystals;
nucleus 3.5 μm
(Page, 1976).
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Mayorella oclawaha,
cell body 50-69 μm long, many tiny crystals,
x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Mayorella (oclawaha ?),
locomotive 43 μm long,
nucleus 2-3 μm diam.,
x 400, x 640, by Y. Tsukii
M. penardi:
50-125 (usually > 100) μm;
L/B to 4.5; with shallow anterior hyaline edge which bears
several mamilliform pseudopodia; may divide into Y shape in changing direction; floating form usually
irregularly rounded, very rarely radiate; nucleus 6.5-10 μm
(Page, 1976).
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