Pseudocucurbitella

Pseudocucurbitella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Tubulinea
Order: Arcellinida
Genus: Pseudocucurbitella
Bovee 1972[1]
Type species
Pseudocucurbitella papillomata
(Gauthier-Lièvre & Thomas) Bovee 1972[1]
Synonyms
  • Difflugia (Pseudocucurbitella) Gauthier-Lièvre & Thomas 1960[1]

Pseudocucurbitella is a genus of freshwater testate amoebae of the order Arcellinida. Its shell is agglutinated, ovoid, with a round crossection and a circular aperture surrounded by 3 to 5 separate lobes forming a short collar.[2]

Originally it was described as a subgenus of Difflugia in 1960, but was elevated to genus level in 1972. The taxonomic position of Pseudocucurbitella among Arcellinida is uncertain[2] and the genus has been abandoned by recent classifications,[3] but it was initially assigned to the family Difflugiidae.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jahn, Theodore L.; Bovee, Eugene C.; Griffith, Donal L. (1974). "Taxonomy and Evolution of the Sarcodina: A Reclassification". Taxon. 23 (4): 483–496. doi:10.2307/1218771. JSTOR 1218771.
  2. 1 2 Tsyganov AN, Babeshko KV, Mazei YA (2016), Определитель родов раковинных амеб [A Guide to Testate Amoebae with the Keys to Genera], Пенза Издательство ПГУ, ISBN 978-5-906913-19-7
  3. ↑ González-Miguéns, Rubén; Todorov, Milcho; Blandenier, Quentin; Duckert, Clément; Porfirio-Sousa, Alfredo L.; Ribeiro, Giulia M.; Ramos, Diana; Lahr, Daniel J.G.; Buckley, David; Lara, Enrique (2022). "Deconstructing Difflugia: The tangled evolution of lobose testate amoebae shells (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) illustrates the importance of convergent evolution in protist phylogeny". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 175: 107557. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107557. hdl:10261/281619. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 35777650.


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