Leptomyxa sp., slowly retracting in response to the light of the microscope
Leptomyxa sp.
Diagnosis: This is a very large amoeba which I found in 2012. I assume that it is a Leptomyxa species, but I was not able to observe it for some days as I could not find it back the next day day in the Petri dish. It is a slowly moving amoeba which builds several lobopodia in several directions. During rapid locomotion, it is one long monopodium, up to 1300 µm. As I used an inverse microscope, I was not able to observe any nuclei or contractile vacuoles.
Habitat: In a peatbog along the Bert Bospad, the Netherlands.
Remarks: I have found only one specimen.
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp., long monopodium, forming lobopodia along its side.
Leptomyxa sp., retracting pseudopodia.
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp., reticulum
Leptomyxa sp., retracting part
Leptomyxa sp., retracting part
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp., crystals visible
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp., crystals visible
Leptomyxa sp.
Leptomyxa sp., crystals visible