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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Leptomyxa

Leptomyxa Goodey, 1915 (ref. ID; 7744)

Class Tubulinea: Order Leptomyxida (ref. ID; 6789)

[ref. ID; 1618]
Multinucleate, thin amoeboid organisms; multinucleate cysts formed by condensation of protoplasm; free-living in soil. (ref. ID; 1618)
  1. Leptomyxa flabellata Goodey, 1914 (ref. ID; 1307) or 1915 (ref. ID; 7744)
  2. Leptomyxa reticulata Goodey, 1915 (ref. ID; 7744) reported year? (ref. ID; 1618)

Leptomyxa reticulata Goodey, 1915 (ref. ID; 7744) reported year? (ref. ID; 1618)

Descriptions

Body composed of a thin transparent protoplasm; superficially resembles an endosporous mycetozoan, but no reversible cytoplasmic movement; mutinucleate with eight to twenty to several hundred nuclei; nuclei, 5-6 um in diameter, with a large endosome; nuclear division simultaneous, but not synchronous plasmotomy; plasmogamy; cysts multinucleate, by local condensation of protoplasm; widely distributed in British soil. (ref. ID; 1618)

Measurements

When fully extended, 3 mm. or more in length. (ref. ID; 1618)