Neoparamoeba

Neoparamoeba is a genus of Amoebozoa.[1] Species contain intracellular kinetoplastid parasites, of the genus Perkinsela, which are maintained in close contact with the nucleus and are considered obligatory and mutualistic.[2]

Neoparamoeba
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Discosea
Order: Dactylopodida
Family: Vexilliferidae
Genus: Neoparamoeba
Page 1987
Type species
Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis
(Page 1970) Page 1987
Species
  • N. aestuarina (Page 1970) Page 1987
  • N. atlantica Kudryavtsev, Pawlowski & Hausmann 2011
  • N. branchipila Dykova et al. 2005
  • N. invadens (Jones 1985)
  • N. longipodia Volkova & Kudryavtsev 2017
  • N. pemaquidensis (Page 1970) Page 1987

References

  1. "The Amoebae". Retrieved June 25, 2009.
  2. Dyková, Iva; Fiala, Ivan; Lom, Jiří; Lukeš, Julius (2003). "Perkinsiella amoebae-like endosymbionts of Neoparamoeba spp., relatives of the kinetoplastid Ichthyobodo". European Journal of Protistology. 39: 37–52. doi:10.1078/0932-4739-00901.


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