Sappinia platani, Wylezich & Walochnik & Corsaro & Michel & Kudryavtsev, 2015

Wylezich, Claudia, Walochnik, Julia, Corsaro, Daniele, Michel, Rolf & Kudryavtsev, Alexander, 2015, Electron Microscopical Investigations of a New Species of the Genus Sappinia (Thecamoebidae, Amoebozoa), Sappinia platani sp. nov., Reveal a Dictyosome in this Genus, Acta Protozoologica 54 (1), pp. 45-51 : 50

Sappinia platani sp. nov. Wylezich, Walochnik, Corsaro, Michel et Kudryavtsev, 2015

Description: Locomotive forms oblong, of a lingulate morphotype; often irregular, length 57–76 µm (n = 10), breadth 23–38 µm (n = 10). Two nuclei in each trophic cell; nuclei vesicular, with large, central nucleoli. Cysts formed by two individual cells, 23–30 µm in diameter. Cell coat 60–120 nm thick, consisting of a loose layer of bent, filamentous structures. Stand- ing forms as typical for S. pedata were extremely seldom observed.