Paramoeba: A Common Marine Genus

Abstract

Amoebae of the genus Paramoeba S chaudinn, 1896, have been found in British waters, further attesting to the wide distribution and common occurrence of these unusually interesting marine protozoa. The British strains belong to the species P. pemaquidensis P age, 1970, first described from the Atlantic coast of North America. The Nebenkörper appears to be characteristic of a morphologically and systematically homogeneous group of amoebae. © 1973 Dr. W. Junk B.V. Publishers.