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 Protozoa :: sarcodic 
Amebas and their relatives.
Most people know what an ameba looks like: blobby, with a shape that's always changing, kind of oozing along a surface. And, in fact, that's what a lot of amebas look like.
Amoeba
The amoeba is a tiny, one-celled organism. You need a microscope to see most amoebas - the largest are only about 1 mm across.
Amoebic diseases
Amoebic dysentery has been a great debilitator in times of war throughout the ages. Modern tourists often find they have picked up amoebic dysentery...
Rhizopod sarcodines
The rhizopods (Superclass Rhizopoda of Phylum Sarcodina) comprise many types of protozoans, including the rhizopod amoebas, the entamoebas, the foraminiforans, and the testaceans.
 
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