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The Fascinating World of Amoebae
Euamoebida Lepsi 1960, emend. Smirnov et al. 2011
Naked with subcylindrical pseudopodia in locomotion (or the entire cell is monopodial and subcylindrical); without alteration of the locomotive form to a flattened expanded and branched one; without adhesive uroid; glycocalyx amorphous, filamentous or consisting of prismatic, cup-shaped structures.

1. Amoeba Bory de St. Vincent 1822
Amoeba proteus
Amoeba proteus
Amoeba proteus (Pallas 1766) Leidy 1878

Amoeba proteus zoochlorella
Amoeba proteus zoochlorella
Amoeba proteus crystals
Amoeba proteus nucleus
Amoeba proteus with symbiotic Chlorella algae.

2. Polychaos Schaeffer 1924
Amoeba proteus nucleus
Polychaos sp. with parasitic fungus