Dracoamoeba

Dracoamoeba
Trophic cell
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Discosea
Order: Centramoebida
Family: Acanthamoebidae
Genus:
Species:
D. jomungandri
Binomial name
Dracoamoeba jomungandri
Tice & Brown 2016[1]

Dracoamoeba is a free-living genus of discosean amoebae in the family Acanthamoebidae containing the sole species Dracoamoeba jomungandri,[2] discovered in 2016 in moist muddy soil close to the ocean shore at Chincoteague, Virginia (United States).[1]

  1. ^ a b Tice AK, Shadwick LL, Fiore-Donno AM, et al. (2016). "Expansion of the molecular and morphological diversity of Acanthamoebidae (Centramoebida, Amoebozoa) and identification of a novel life cycle type within the group". Biol Direct. 11 (1) 69. doi:10.1186/s13062-016-0171-0. PMC 5192571. PMID 28031045.
  2. ^ "Dracoamoeba jomungandri". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Retrieved 24 August 2022.
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