Thecamoeba

<i>Thecamoeba</i>

Thecamoeba

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Not to be confused with thecamoebians.

Thecamoeba is a genus of Amoebozoa with a tough pellicle simulating a shell.

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It includes the species:

  • T. aesculea Kudryavtsev & Hausmann 2009
  • T. assimilis Lepşi 1960
  •  ?T. bilizi (Schaeffer 1926)
  •  ?T. circita Dumas 1929
  •  ?T. corrugata Bovee 1953
  • T. cosmophorea Mesentsev & Smirnov 2019
  •  ?T. exapartirta Escomel 1929
  • T. hilla Schaeffer 1926[1]
  • T. hoffmani Sawyer, Hnath & Conrad 1974
  • T. munda Schaeffer 1926
  • T. orbis Schaeffer 1926
  •  ?T. ovalis Lepşi 1960
  •  ?T. papyracea (Penard 1905)
  • T. pulchra (Biernacka 1963) Page 1977
  • T. quadrilineata (Carter 1856) Lepşi 1960
  •  ?T. quinquepartita Dumas 1929
  •  ?T. rugosa Schaeffer 1926
  • T. similis (Greeff 1891) Lepşi 1960
  • T. sparolata (Fishbeck & Bovee 1993)
  • T. sphaeronucleolus (Greeff 1891) Schaeffer 1926
  • T. striata (Penard 1890) Schaeffer 1926
  • T. terricola (Greeff 1866) Lepşi 1960
  • T. verrucosa (Ehrenberg 1838) Schaeffer 1926

References

  1. [1]
    Dyková, I.; Fiala, I.; Dvoráková, H.; Pecková, H. (2008). "Living together: the marine amoeba Thecamoeba hilla Schaeffer, 1926 and its endosymbiont Labyrinthula sp". European Journal of Protistology. 44 (4): 308–316. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2008.04.001. PMID 18619822.


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