Amoeba Proteus

Free-living fresh water protest found in fresh water bodies and moist soil.

Microscopic body is covered by a semi permeable pellicle.

Body form and shape changes continuously.

On all sides of the body there are many pseudopodia that are blend and lobular (lobo podia).

Uninucleate.

Pseudopodia help in locomotion and food collection.

Reproduce asexually by binary fission and multiple fission.

Capable of ensystment.