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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Lingulamoeba

Class Flabellinea: Order Vannellida: Family Vannellidae Bovee, 1979 (ref. ID; 6789)
  1. Lingulamoeba leei Sawyer, 1975 (ref. ID; 6796) reported year? (ref. ID; 3847)

Lingulamoeba leei Sawyer, 1975 (ref. ID; 6796) reported year? (ref. ID; 3847)

Descriptions

Marine amoebae. (ref. ID; 3847)
Locomotive form tongue-shaped with blunt, smooth anterior margin and flattened or triangular posterior hyaloplasm occupies half or more of the total body length. Length in locomotion 16-23 um (average 20 um), breadth 12-18 um (average 14.5 um). Single vesicular nucleus, spherical, or slightly ovoid, ca. 3.5 um in diameter with cental nucleolus, ca. 2.5 um in diameter. Rate of locomotion ~20-30 um/min. Floating form spherical, with wrinkled surface, without pseudopodia. Description and illustrations: Sawyer (1975); ultrastructure: Peglar et al. (2003). No type material. (ref. ID; 6796)

Habitats

Marine, tolerates up to ca. 7.5 ppt salinity. (ref. ID; 6796)

Available culture

ATCC 30734. Complete 18S rRNA gene sequenced by Peglar et al. (2003) (GenBank AY183886). (ref. ID; 6796)