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Description:
Rhogostoma (row-gaw-stow-ma) is a rarely reported amoeba with a flexible surrounding test and with a small opening through which pseudopodia can emerge. The opening is at the bottom of the cell and looks as if it has two lips. Large nucleus with nucleolus at the other side of the cell. Eats bacteria. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Rhizaria (rhizarians)
- Cercozoa (cercozoans)
- Thecofilosea
- Cryomonadida
- Rhogostomidae
- Rhogostoma
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- David Patterson, Linda Amaral Zettler, Mike Peglar and Tom Nerad
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