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ways (F, H], and the pseudopods may be prolongations of con- 

 siderable relative size (C), or mere wave-like elevations of the 

 surface (G). Sometimes specimens are found in which neither 



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FIG. 31. Protamoeba primitiva. Showing changes of form and three stages in binary 

 fission. (After Haeckel, from Parker's Biology.) 



nucleus nor vacuole is present ; these are placed in the genus 

 Protamoeba (Fig. 31). This and other non-nucleate forms possess a 

 potential nucleus in the form of minute scattered granules of chro- 

 matin (chromidia). 



The largest of the naked or shell-less Lobosa is Pelomyxa, which 

 may be as much as 8 mm. in diameter ; it is multi-nucleate and is 

 further distinguished by the presence of numerous non-contractile 

 vacuoles in the endosarc. 



Skeleton. We may 

 understand the relation 

 of the shelled to the 

 shell-less Lobosa by 

 upposing an Amoeba to 

 draw in the pseudopods 

 from the greater part of 

 its body, and to secrete, 

 from that part only, a 

 cell- wall ; such a cell- wall 

 or capsule would differ 

 from a cyst in having 

 an aperture at one end 

 to allow of the protrusion 

 of pseudopods from a 

 small naked area. This 

 is exactly what we find 

 in Arcella and its allies 

 (Fig. 32, A-C), in which 

 the shell is chitinoid. 

 A different kind of shell 

 is found in Difflugia (D), 

 which secretes a gela- 

 tinous coating to which 

 minute sand-grains and other foreign particles become attached. 



The prevailing mode of multiplication is by means of binary 

 fission. But multiple fission also occurs. In such a case the animal 

 passes into the encysted condition, and nucleus and protoplasm 



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FIG. 32. A, Quadrula symmetric a ; 

 sphenia lata ; C, Arcella vulgaris ; D, 



pyriformis. 



alo- 



_ ugia 



(From Lang's Comparative Anatomy.) 



