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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Conopodina: Mayorellidae

 Mayorella sp.
(Wang, 1932)

Mayorella Genus: Clear pseudopods, formed from clear anterior, more or less broad margin (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Group II: subpseudopodia, broadly based mammilliform or nearly hemisperical pyramids. (b1: Pseudopods triangular; locomotive more than 100 μm)
Species:

Mayorella sp. (very large; bigemma ?), 140 μm long, vesicular nucleus 14 μm diam., endosome 9-10 μm, no or less hyaline zone in protruding pseudopods, 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
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M. bigemma (Schaeffer, 1918): Locomotive, 100-450 μm long; pseudopods, clear, conical 8-90 μm long; uroid, temporary, morulate; ectoplasm, thin, clear; endoplasm, clear, vesicular, granular; nucleus, spherical, 10-12 μm; endosome, 5-6 μm; crystals, truncated, bipyramidal, 1-2 μm long (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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