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Pelomyxa
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
so named by R. Greeff, a genus of Lobose Rhizopoda, naked, multinucleate, with very blunt rounded pseudopodia, formed by eruption (see Amoeba), often containing peculiar vesicles (glycogen?), and full of a symbiotic bacterium.
It inhabits the ooze of decomposing organic matter at bottom of ponds and lakes.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pelomyxa'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pelomyxa.html. 1910.