Category: Amoebozoa

Belongs within: Eumycetozoa.Contains: Licea, Cribrariaceae, Reticulariaceae, Trichiaceae. The Lucisporidia are a group of slime moulds producing light- or bright-coloured spores (Adl et al. 2019). <==Lucisporidia (see below for synonymy) | i. s.: Alwisia Berk. & Broome 1873AB19, KC01 |–Liceida [Liceales]C-SCL16 | |–LiceaRS99 | |–CribrariaceaeKC01 | |–ReticulariaceaeKC01 | `–Listerella Jahn 1906LT62 [Listerellaceae, ListerellidaeC-SCO04] | `–*L. paradoxa Jahn 1906NNB93 `–Trichiida [Trichiales]C-SCL16 |–TrichiaceaeKC01… Continue reading Lucisporidia

Belongs within: Arcellinida. Difflugia is a genus of testate amoebozoans found in freshwater lakes and ponds, with a test composed of a combination of pseudochitin and agglutinated foreign material. They are known in the fossil record from the Eocene (Loeblich & Tappan 1964). In the type species D. protoeiformis, the apex of the test is drawn… Continue reading Difflugia

Belongs within: Tubulinea. The Microcoryciidae are amoeboid organisms with a membranous test that becomes flexible around the aperture (Loeblich & Tappan 1964). Characters (Loeblich & Tappan 1964): Test membranous, in part rigid or semirigid, thinning and becoming more pliable toward variously shaped aperture; one or many nuclei. <==Microcoryciidae [Corycina, Microchlamyini, Mikrocoryciinae, Mikrocoryciini]LT64 |–Microcorycia Cockerell 1911 (see below… Continue reading Microcoryciidae

Belongs within: Tubulinea.Contains: Arcella, Trigonopyxidae, Hyalospheniidae, Centropyxiidae, Plagiopyxidae, Difflugia. The Arcellinida, testate amoebae, are a group of amoebozoans which contain themselves inside an organic or mineral extracellular test of either self-secreted elements (calcareous, siliceous, or chitinoid) or recycled mineral particles bound together, with a single main opening. Pseudopodia are conical and pointed in species of… Continue reading Arcellinida

Belongs within: Arcellinida. The Centropyxiidae are a group of testate amoebozoans with a chitinous test into which sand or other foreign matter has been incorporated (Loeblich & Tappan 1964). In members of the genus Centropyxis the border of the pseudostome is bent inwardly whereas it is bent outwardly in Centropyxiella. Characters (Loeblich & Tappan 1964): Test chitinous, enclosing… Continue reading Centropyxiidae

Belongs within: Arcellinida. The Hyalospheniidae are a group of testate amoebozoans in which the test is composed of pseudochitin, and which have a distinctive pseudopodium conformation in which retreating pseudopodia leave a long thin pellicle that is slowly retracted (Loeblich & Tappan 1964). In members of the genus Hyalosphenia, the scales or plates of the test… Continue reading Hyalospheniidae

Belongs within: Amoebozoa.Contains: Lucisporidia, Columellidia. The Eumycetozoa, true slime moulds, are a clade of amoeboid organisms characterised by the production of aggregative fruiting bodies during the reproductive phase of the life cycle. The prior nutritive stage may develop as separate individual amoebae, as in Dictyostelia, or a multinucleate plasmodium as in Myxogastria. Characters (Adl et al. 2019): Fruiting… Continue reading Eumycetozoa