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Gliding amoeba

Species name: Testate Amoeba and Amoeba

AL-Museum AL-Museum

An amoeba is gliding smoothly across the glass slide under the microscope. The rim of its body is transparent, but the center of its body is filled with food and slightly rigid. Although it doesn't extend pseudopods, food particles enter its body as the amoeba moves over them. A diatom is temporalily captured, but manages to escape.

AL-Museum

(2016.07.15)

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