Saccamoeba limax (Dujardin, 1841)
Diagnosis: Locomotive form slender (L/B c. 4.8); villous bulb common; bipyramidal crystals to about 3.5 µm, seldom more than 30 present, sometimes lost after years in culture; endocytic bacteria in known strains; cup-like surface structures c. 40 nm in diameter; mitochondria never elongate.
Dimensions: 35-85 µm; nucleus 6-11 µm.
Ecology: freshwater, several water types.
Unknown species, collected from the river Drôme, France, 2021 Unknown species September 2021, I found three specimens of an agglutinated foraminifer in a sample collected
Cyclopyxis spec., 168 µm Cyclopyxis spec. Diagnosis: Shell circular in ventral and dorsal view, more or less hemispherical in lateral view (height/diameter ≈ 0.5); lateral
Difflugia fallax, from Penard, 1902 Difflugia fallax Penard, 1890 Diagnosis: Shell hyaline or yellowish-greenish, black at low magnification, round in cross section, formed of a
Z. compressoidea, a-b after Chardez, 1958; c after Jung, 1942 Zivkovicia compressoidea (Jung, 1942) new.comb. Basionym: Pontigulasia compressoidea Jung, 1942 Diagnosis: Shell ovoid and compressed,
Z. flexa, from Cash and Hopkinson, 1909 Zivkovicia flexa (Cash and Hopkinson, 1909) Ogden, 1983 Basionym: Pontigulasia compressa var. flexa Cash and Hopkinson, 1909 Diagnosis:
L. epiouxi, after Chardez, 1984 3 Lagenodifflugia epiouxi (Chardez, 1983) new comb. Basionym: Pontigulasia epiouxi Chardez, 1983 Diagnosis: Shell elongate, circular in cross-section or very
Centropyxis lapponica, after Grospietsch, 1954 Centropyxis lapponica Grospietsch, 1954 Diagnosis: Shell nearly circular in circumference, without spines. Aperture clear square with rounded corners. Shell viewed
Chaos spec., Crailoo, 2021 Chaos spec. This specimen was found in a samples from Crailoo, Netherlands. It was remarkable because of the absence of crystals.
Difflugia lobostoma parasitism I found this Difflugia lanceolata specimen in 2021, in the mud of a shallow pond. A parasite is present in the posterior
Bullinularia maxima – from Bobrov and Mazei, 2020 Bullinularia maxima Bobrov et Mazei, 2020 Diagnosis: Shell brown, opaque, elliptical in ventral view; ventral surface is