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Eukaryota > Amoebozoa > Lobosea > Amoebida > Acanthopodina

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Acanthopodina  

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Note

  • infection: coordinate IM with AMEBIASIS (IM); coordinate with specific protozoan terms (ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN, etc) if pertinent

Scope note

  • A suborder of ameboid protozoa. Characteristics include subpseudopodia that are more or less finely tipped, occasionally filiform, commonly furcate hyaline, and produced from a broad hyaline lobe. Cysts are usually formed and nuclear division is mesomitotic or metamitotic.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016842

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