portrait
Single cell, living, moving to upper right. The uroid is the cumpled region at the posterior end of the cell. Actively progressing pseudopodia (such as the one pointing north) have a hyaline cap. Cell surface with folds. Contractile vacuole and nucleus not visible. This was added to the site by D. J. Patterson. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Amoeba proteus
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Protsville
| Description of Amoeba proteus: Length of this species in locomotion about 220-760 microns (mean 425 microns). Nucleus discoid, often concave, 22-62 microns (mean 40 microns), nucleus with thickened wall. The majority of the cells are usually polypodial under favourable conditions, with lobose pseudopodia, with a small minority of cells being monopodial. With posterior rumpled uroid. Has world-wide distribution. |
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