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Acanthamoeba
Acanthamoeba

Acanthamoebida Page, 1976

Diagnosis: Flattened with prominent subpseudopodia, flexible and tapering to a fine tip and sometimes furcated near their base (acanthopodia); without adhesive uroid; trilaminate MTOC; some species in culture appear as a branched, flattened sheet; at least two taxa, Acanthamoeba and Luapeleamoeba, contain species with protosteloid sporocarpy.

Acanthamoeba
cf Acanthamoeba spec. fresh water, the Netherlands
Ferry Siemensma, created March 2, 2019; last modified March 15, 2023
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