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Frederick C. Page; The Fine Structure of Vexillifera bacillipedes (Amoebida, Paramoebidae). Arch.Protistenk 122:9-19, 1979

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Vexillifera bacillipedes is the first freshwater species of the family Paramoebidae whose internal structure has been examined with the electron microscope. Findings include a thin glycocalyx, a single Golgi body adjacent to the nucleus, an endoplasmic reticulum in the form of small flattened cisternae, and a number of bodies shown by the Thiery procedure to contain polysaccharide. V. bacillipedes is compared with Acanthamoeba, which it superficially resembles.