Squamamoeba
Squamamoeba japonica – from Kudryavtsev and Pawlowski (2013)

Cutosea Cavalier-Smith et al., 2016

Diagnosis: Amoebae bounded by a continuous thin, somewhat flexible, envelope separated from the plasma membrane and having oval scale-like substructure within a denser matrix; small pores penetrate the envelope, allowing subpseudopodia to protrude for very slow, occasional locomotion; locomotive cells flattened, oval, rounded or irregularly triangular.

Ferry Siemensma, created March 15, 2023; last modified September 30, 2023
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