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PELOMYXA
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PELOMYXA , so named by R . Greeff, a genus of Lobose See also: Rhizopoda (q.v.), naked, muitinucleate, with very blunt rounded pseudopodia, formed by eruption (see See also: AMOEBA), often containing See also: peculiar vesicles (glycogen?), and full of a symbiotic bacterium
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It inhabits the ooze of decomposing organic See also: matter at the bottom of ponds and lakes
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