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  2. Thecamoeba - Wikipedia

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    Thecamoeba is a genus of Amoebozoa with a tough pellicle simulating a shell.. It includes the species: T. aesculea Kudryavtsev & Hausmann 2009; T. assimilis Lepşi 1960; T. bilizi (Schaeffer 1926)

  3. Amoeba - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise from top right: Amoeba proteus, Actinophrys sol, Acanthamoeba sp., Nuclearia thermophila., Euglypha acanthophora, neutrophil ingesting bacteria. An amoeba (/ ə ˈ m iː b ə /; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; pl.: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae) / ə ˈ m iː b i /), [1] often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability ...

  4. Amoebozoa - Wikipedia

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    An amoeba of the genus Mayorella (Amoebozoa, Discosea). Amoebozoa is a large and diverse group, but certain features are common to many of its members. The amoebozoan cell is typically divided into a granular central mass, called endoplasm, and a clear outer layer, called ectoplasm.

  5. Amoeboflagellate - Wikipedia

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    The heterolobosean pathogen Naegleria fowleri can behave as an amoeba (center) or as a flagellate (right).. An amoeboflagellate (‹The template Plural abbr is being considered for merging.› pl. amoeboflagellates) is any eukaryotic organism capable of behaving as an amoeba and as a flagellate at some point during their life cycle.

  6. Willaertia - Wikipedia

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    Willaertia is a thermophilic amoeba and has the capacity to grow in high temperatures, up to 44º Celsius. [3] While it can be found in a variety of locations, typically it lives in thermal swimming pools. [1]

  7. Amoebidae - Wikipedia

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    The Amoebidae are a family of Amoebozoa, [1] including naked amoebae that produce multiple pseudopodia of indeterminate length. These are roughly cylindrical with granular endoplasm and no subpseudopodia, as found in other members of the class Tubulinea. During locomotion one pseudopod typically becomes dominant and the others are retracted as ...

  8. Amoeba (genus) - Wikipedia

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    In Amoeba, the pseudopodia are approximately tubular, and rounded at the ends (lobose). The cell's overall shape may change rapidly as pseudopodia are extended and retracted into the cell body. An Amoeba may produce many pseudopodia at once, especially when freely floating. When crawling rapidly along a surface, the cell may take a roughly ...

  9. Naegleria fowleri - Wikipedia

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    Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .