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Micronuclearia |
| Grouped within the nucleariids with
genera Nuclearia and Vampyrellidium). Micronuclearia is a
spherical amoeba with a single pseudopodal extension that
branches. Only one species so far recognised but apparently a
similar amoeba is common in hypersaline prawn farms in Queensland
Australia (Pers.Comm. from D.J. Patterson in Mikrukov
& Mylnikov, 2001)
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| Described species:-
Micronuclearia podoventralis (body 5mm
in diameter). (Mikrukov
& Mylnikov, 2001)From
Waste treatment plant (Borok Yaroslav province, Russia) |
References:-
Mikrjukov, K. A. &
Mylnikov, A. P. (2001) A study of the fine structure and th mitosis of a
lamellicristate amoeba, Micronuclearia podoventralis gen. et sp. nov. (Nucleariidae,
Rotosphaerida)., Eur. J. Protitol. 37, 15-24.
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