Leptomyxa

Leptomyxa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Tubulinea
Order: Leptomyxida
Family: Leptomyxidae
Genus:
Goodey, 1915 emend. Smirnov et al., 2017
Type species
Leptomyxa reticulata
Goodey 1915
Species

See text

Leptomyxa is a free-living genus of lobose naked multinucleate amoebae in the order Leptomyxida that inhabits freshwater, soil and mosses. It is very closely related to the genus Rhizamoeba, and some species have been moved between the two genera due to molecular data.[1]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Smirnov2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.