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Thecamoeba From a Home

This is a vent view of a thecamoeba collected on an environmental tapelift from the top of a refrigerator in a home.

Transmitted Oblique Off Crossed Circular Polarized light Illumination

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References:

Jahn, T. L., HOW TO KNOW THE PROTOZOA, Wm. C. Brown Co. Publ., p. 126, 1949.

Scott, DAVID B., FRANCO S. Medioli, and Charles T. Schafer, MONITORING IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS USING FORAMINIFERA AND THECAMOEBIAN INDICATORS, Cambridge University Press, 2001.