Description of the large multinucleate lobose amoeba chaos glabrum sp. n. (Lobosea, amoebidae), with notes on the diagnosis of the genus chaos

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-233

  Smirnov, Alexey V ^a   Goodkov, Andrew V ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amoebae; Amoebidae; Chaos; Lobosea; Taxonomy; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030826870     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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