Gocevia spec. – Microworld

Contractile vacuole and nucleus

Gocevia spec.

Diagnosis: amoeba more or less spherical in shape, partly or completely surrounded by a distinct hyaline margin; surface with a layer of foreign bodies; hyaline zone often irregular in outline with conical or digiform subpseudopodia and trailing filaments; nucleus spherical with central nucleolus which shows some lacunae.

Dimensions: c. 20 µm

Ecology: fresh water, in sediments of ditches.

Remarks: This species resembles G. binucleata, but differs in size and the structure of the nucleolus.

Several contractile vacuoles and pseudopodia (arrowed)

Ferry Siemensma
Created March 3, 2019
Last updated January 31, 2021

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