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Diplochlamys

Diplochlamys Greeff (ref. ID; 1618)

[ref. ID; 1618]
Test hemispherical or cup-shaped, flexible with a double envelope; inner envelope a membranous sack with an elastic aperture; outer envelope with loosely attached foreign bodies; aperture large; nuclei up to 100; pseudopodia few, short, digitate or pointed fresh water. (ref. ID; 1618)

[ref. ID; 1923]
Shell membrane double; with an internal hyaline membrane. Hemispherical to cup-shaped, loosely coated with organic and mineral particles. (ref. ID; 1923)
  1. Diplochlamys fragilis Penard (ref. ID; 1923)
    See; Diplochlamys leidyi Greeff (ref. ID; 3595)
  2. Diplochlamys leidyi Greeff (ref. ID; 1618, 3595)
    Syn; Diplochlamys fragilis Penard (ref. ID; 3595)

Diplochlamys fragilis Penard (ref. ID; 1923)

See

Diplochlamys leidyi Greeff (ref. ID; 3595)

Descriptions

Color gray spotted with black. Thirty to 40 nuclei. Pseudopods short and thick. Habitat mosses; not common. (ref. ID; 1923)

Measurements

Diameter 70-125 um. (ref. ID; 1923)

Diplochlamys leidyi Greeff (ref. ID; 1618, 3595)

Synonym

Diplochlamys fragilis Penard (ref. ID; 3595)

Descriptions

Test dark gray; inner envelope projecting beyond outer aperture; nuclei up to twenty in number. (ref. ID; 1618)

Measurements

Diameter 80-100 um. (ref. ID; 1618)