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A New Species of Amœba: A. kerrii

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SINCE the publication of full details with relevant plates and drawings will necessarily be long delayed, the following account of a new species of amœba belonging to Schaeffer's genus Metachaos, isolated from some water-weeds collected on the shore in front of the Marine Biological Station of Keppel by Miss Maureen McAlister in 1939, and now under cultivation in Notre Dame Laboratory, will serve as a preliminary notice to other workers.

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TAYLOR, M. A New Species of Amœba: A. kerrii. Nature 154, 304–305 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154304b0

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