Heleopera sphagni

Super Group: 
Eukaryota
Phylum: 
Amoebozoa
Class: 
Lobosea
Order: 
Arcellinida
Family: 
Heleoperidae
Genus: 
Heleopera
Species: 
sphagni
Authority: 
Leidy, 1874

Diagnosis

 Test chitinous, coloured greyish-rose or deep purple, nearly allways rough with adhering sand-grains; pseudostome narrow, elliptic, notched in lateral view, frontal view of pseudostome more or less convex or truncated, with rounded corners;
 Shell broadly ovoid, regular in outline, compressed; chitinous membrane tinted yellowish (rarely brownish), with a surfacing of irregular transparent siliceous plates; fundus with little foreign material, often without. The presence of the chlorellae seems to be necessary to the life of the animal. 
Body_ length 87-168 micrometers.

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