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amebocyte
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Also known as amoebocyte

thumb|The cytoskeleton of a [[Limulus (horseshoe crab) amebocyte]]

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amoeba
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Amebocytes
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thumb|The cytoskeleton of a [[Limulus (horseshoe crab) amebocyte]]

An amebocyte or amoebocyte () is a motile cell (moving like an amoeba) in the bodies of invertebrates including cnidaria, echinoderms, molluscs, tunicates, sponges, and some chelicerates.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “amebocyte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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