morphological studies on two rare water amoeba balamuthia mandrillaris and vannella miroides from godavari basin at gangapur and vaijapur

We found these two aquatic amoebae Balamuthia mandrillaris, Vannella miroides during studies of the amoeba fauna to the Godavari basin at Gangapur and Vaijapur .These two species of Amoeba are fist recorded in Maharashtra.Morphological investigation using live observation at the light microscopical level indicated that Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free living heterotrophic amoeba consisting of a standard complement of organelles surrounded by a three layered cell wall and with an abnormally large vesicular nucleus.Vannella miroides a fan like structure, & locomotive form is flattened .Additional data and details of the morphology of both the species were described and illustrated.