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Arcella sp.

Species name: Arcella sp.

Bureau of Swerage,  Tokyo Metropolitan Government

The size of Amoeba is 30-250 μm in length. Arcella is one kind of Amoeba with hemisphere-shaped shell. When a cell is young the color near the transparency, but during ageing, it becomes dark brown. They move and eat by stretching out their pseudopods. Tts food source is several microorganism.

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(2015.12.18)

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