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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Dermamoeba

Dermamoeba Page, 1979 (ref. ID; 2359 original paper)

[ref. ID; 2359]
Description; A flattened ovoid; sometimes narrowed anteriorly to a lingulate form, often with a broadly modulate uroid from which a few low folds may proceed anteriorly a short distance; hyaloplasm usually a deep crescent at anterior end, usually with thin lateral extensions toward posterior end; no discrete pseudopodia; normally uninucleate; non-mucoid tegument, more than 0.5 um thick in the one investigated species, enclosing amoeba but in electron microscopy preparations slightly separated from plasma membrane. (ref. ID; 2359)
Type species; Amoeba granifera Greeff, 1866 (ref. ID; 2359)
  1. Dermamoeba granifera (ref. ID; 2359)