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CONSIDERABLE interest is attached to the name of the common large free-living amæba (Amæba proteus, Leidy) used extensively for teaching purposes. In recent discussions by systematists on this point, an organism known as Pelomyxa carolinensis plays an important part. This animal was renamed by Schaeffer (1926) Chaos chaos. Mast and Johnson (1931), quoting Schaeffer, say it has never been reported from Europe.
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MCGURIE, I. Pelomyxa carolinensis in Great Britain. Nature 130, 168–169 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130168b0
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