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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Lieberkuhnia

Lieberkuhnia Claparede & Lachmann, 1858 (ref. ID; 3693)

ref. ID; 1618

Test ovoidal or spherical, with or without attach foreign particles; aperture usually single, lateral or subterminal; one or more nuclei; many contractile vacuoles; pseudopodia formed from a long peduncle, reticulate, often enveloping test; fresh or salt water. (ref. ID; 1618)

ref. ID; 1923

Envelope very flexible, changeable in shape. (ref. ID; 1923)
  1. Lieberkuhnia wagneri Claparede & Lachmann (ref. ID; 1618, 1923, 3693)

Lieberkuhnia wagneri Claparede & Lachmann (ref. ID; 1618, 1923, 3693)

Descriptions

Spheroidal; aperture subterminal, oblique, flexible; cytoplasm slightly yellowish, fills the test; 80-150 vesicular nuclei; nuclei 6 µm in diameter; many contractile vacuoles; pseudopodia long, anastomosing; among algae in fresh and salt water. (ref. ID; 1618)

Shell pyriform or elongate. Pseudopodia long, anastomosing, extending from a protoplasmic peduncle at the aperture, and laterally situated. Nuclei as many as 200. Contractile vacuole numerous. Habitat mosses. (ref. ID; 1923)

Measurements

60-160 µm long. (ref. ID; 1618)

Length 90-100 µm. (ref. ID; 1923)