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Frederick C. Page and N.B.S. Willumsen; A Light- and Electron-microscopical Study of Paraflabellula reniformis (Schmoller, 1964), Type species of a Genus of Amoebae (Amoebida, Flabellulidae) with Subpseudopodia. Protistologica XIX(4):567-575, 1983

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Paraflabellula reniformis (Schmoller, 1964), an amoeba isolated from the Baltic, resembles members of the genus Flabellula Schaeffer, 1926, but produces non-furcate subpseudopodia from its broad hyaloplasmic lobopodium. We have studied this amoeba with the light and electron microscopes. The subpseudopodia of the locomotive form and also the long radiate pseudopodia of the floating form contain longitudinally orientated fibrillar cytoplasm. Besides the type species P. reniformis, the genus Paraflabellula Page and Willumsen, 1983, includes the marine amoeba P. hoguae (Sawyer, 1975) and the freshwater/soil amoeba P. kudoi (Singh and Hanumaiah, 1979) n. comb. The ability to produce such subpseudopodia appears to occur in several possibly unrelated groups.