Family Echinamoebidae Page, 1975
Diagnosis: Flattened amoebae with many short, extremely fine subpseudopodia which may be furcate. Subpseudopodia with a central filamentous core at the ultrastructural level.
1 | Amoebae usually less than 15 µm, pseudopodia short as spine-like projections, cysts with thin cell walls | Echinamoeba |
– | Amoebae usually larger than 15 µm, cysts with thick walls; with a few short spine-like echinopodia | Comandonia |