Sarcodines
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P21 Actinosphaerium eichornii
Large spherical, multinucleate helizoan with numerous radiating, contractile axopodia which ensnare smaller protist food prey. For culturing we recommend ordering ...
- P30 Actinophrys sol 'Sun animalcule' a smaller, prolific and uninucleate heliozoan which readily forms dormant cysts.
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P44 Amoeba proteus
A very large and vigorous strain which displays protoplasmic streaming (cyclosis), prey encapsulation and phagocytosis. An excellent textbook species for ...
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P52 Arcella vulgaris
A typical testate amoebae which secretes a brown tectinous shell (test) with a central aperture through which the lobopodia emerge ...
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P100 Nuclearia delicatula
An amoebae which feeds exclusively on blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria). Cultures contain amoebic cells in various stages of ingesting cyanobacterial filaments.
- P105 Raphidiophrys sp. A small centroheliozoon. Forms cysts.