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Echinamoeba (eck-eye-na-mee-ba), a genus of free-living amoebae believed to be related to Acanthamoeba. With a hyaline region from which emerge fine sub-pseudopodia. Nucleus with nucleolus and condensed heterochromatin on the inside face of the nuclear envelope evident at about 10 o clock. Posteriorly with filaments which make up the uroid. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Amoebozoa (amoeboid protists)
- Tubulinea
- Echinamoebida
- Echinamoebidae
- Echinamoeba
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