Family Acramoebidae Smirnov, Nassonova et Cavalier-Smith, 2008
Diagnosis: Highly branched, flattened naked amoeboid organisms, with very slender, pointed, sometimes branched hyaline subpseudopodia never forming a network, lacking granules; lacking cilia or flagella.
Type genus Acramoeba
Genus Acramoeba Smirnov, Nassonova et Cavalier-Smith, 2008
With diagnosis of the family.
Type species: Acramoeba dendroida
Difflugia sp. nov. 273-307 µm Difflugia sp. nov. Diagnosis: Shell elongated oblong, usually with a distinct neck, composed of much smaller particles than the rest
Euglypha bryophila, after Brown, 1911 (L), from Ecuador (R) Euglypha bryophila Brown, 1911 Diagnosis: (Original description) The test is very regular in form and subject
(A) A Scenedesmus cell (arrow) is engulfed by a trophozoite. (B) Several Scenedesmus cells adhere to the surface of a plasmodium that has numerous vacuoles
Actinosphaeridium spec. Diagnosis: Cell surrounded by a membranous shell, with an outer mucous layer. Filopodia with granules, sometimes branching. Cell stalked. Ecology: I found this
Euglyphidion enigmaticum – after Bonnet, 1960 Genus Euglyphidion Bonnet, 196 Diagnosis: Shell hyaline, ovoid, pseudostome circular or slightly elliptical. Shell loosely covered with two types of
Leptomyxa sp., slowly retracting in response to the light of the microscope Leptomyxa sp. Diagnose: This is a very large amoeba which I found in