Hollandella
Hollandella Page, 1981 (ref. ID; 7601 original paper)
Subclass Gymnamoebia: Order Amoebida: Family Paramoebidae (ref. ID; 7601)
[ref. ID; 7601]
Diagnosis; Dactyloid, blunt, hyaline subpseudopodia of similar lengths, not furcate, usually few, usually produced from a hyaline lobe, length of locomotive form greater than breadth; cell coat of complex structure including thin-walled, cylindrical or laterally compressed cylindrical units perpedicular to cell surface in fibrillar matrix; numerous Golgi bodies distributed widely in cytoplasm; no parasome; floating forms with tapering pseudopodia produced from usually irregular cell mass. Both freshwater and marine species. (ref. ID; 7601)
Type species; Hollandella pussardi (Hollande, Nicolas & Escaig, 1981) n. comb. (ref. ID; 7601)
- Hollandella kuwaitensis Page, 1981 (ref. ID; 7601 original paper)
- Hollandella pussardi (Hollande, Nicolas & Escaig, 1981) n. comb. (ref. ID; 7601)
Diagnosis
Length of locomotive form 30-85 um, mean between 50 and 55 um; mean length/breadth ratio above 2.0; locomotive form often tapering toward posterior end, which is commonly differentiated as a broadly morulate uroid; some times temporarily without dactyloid subpseudopodia when observed on microscope slide; nucleus spherical, approximately 4.5-7.5 um, with central, more or less spherical, compact nucleolus; small refractile cytplasmic inclusions common but crystals not known; no contractile vacuole; cell coat about 180 nm thick, with pseudostratification into two layers; no cyst known. (ref. ID; 7601)
Observed habtiat
Marine, Persian Gulf region. (ref. ID; 7601)
Type slides
Holotype (1981:7:10:1) and paratype (1981:7:10:2), both prepared from strain 220, at British Museum (Natural History). (ref. ID; 7601)