Gruberella Gruber, 1889 (Fig . 15)

Description

Marine amoeba with rapidly moving locomotive form as a thick cylinder around 60 1-1m in length. Produces eruptive hyaline bulges. Multinucleate with around 6 nuclei but up to 37 per cell. Posterior adhesive filaments a common feature . At the ultrastructural level surface coat as a thin glycocalyx. Monotypic genus. Euhyperamoeba, a limax marine amoeba, is similar to Gruberella (see Chapter on Lobosea). forms . Bar=1 0 IJm .

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Marine amoeba with rapidly moving locomotive
form as a thick cylinder around 60 1-1m in length.
Produces eruptive hyaline bulges. Multinucleate
with around 6 nuclei but up to 37 per cell.
Posterior adhesive filaments a common feature . At
the ultrastructural level surface coat as a thin
glycocalyx. Monotypic genus. Euhyperamoeba, a
limax marine amoeba, is similar to Gruberella
(see Chapter on Lobosea).
forms . Bar=1 0 IJm .