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Description:
Microchlamys, a shelled amoeba in which the lorica is thin, organic and flexible. In this image the lorica is folded. The lorica seems to be transparent when first formed, with age it becomes brown. From Lake Donghu, China. Phase contrast micrograph.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Amoebozoa (amoeboid protists)
- Tubulinea
- Corycida
- Arcellina
- Microchlamyiidae
- Microchlamys
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- Feng Weisong; Gu Xiwen; Yang Jun; Miao Wei and David Patterson
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