detail, uroid
Description:
Rhizamoeba (rye-sa-me-ba), a free-living naked amoeba which may adopt a variety of body forms from limax (slug-like) to more or less discoidal, to an extended fan-shape as here. Margins of the cell give rise to irregular thin pseudopodia. Nuclei round with central nucleolus. The tuft of fine filaments is the uroid. Phase contrast.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Amoebozoa (amoeboid protists)
- Tubulinea
- Elardia
- Leptomyxida
- Flabellulidae
- Rhizamoeba
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