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Vahlkampfia (vall-camp-fee-a) (= Schizopyrenus - skitz-owe-pyre-een-us ?) a heterolobose amoeba, pseudopodia are produced in sudden bulges, and are lobose. Large hyaline region. Also with posterior contractile vacuole, nucleus with nucleolus and various food vacuoles and inclusions. Usually with a small uroid giving rise to filaments, but this is not evident here. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Excavates (excavates)
- Discoba (Jakobids)
- Heterolobosea (lobose amoebae)
- Tetramitia
- Eutetramitia
- Vahlkampfiidae
- Vahlkampfia
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