Rhizamoeba

Rhizamoeba
Different monopodial shapes of Rhizamoeba (clockwise from top left): worm-like, static, flattened, clavate.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Tubulinea
Order: Leptomyxida
Family: Rhizamoebidae
Genus:
Page 1972 em. Smirnov et al. 2016
Type species
Rhizamoeba polyura
Page 1972
Species

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Rhizamoeba is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae[1] in the order Leptomyxida.[2][3] It is most closely related to Leptomyxa and Flabellula, and some species have been moved to Leptomyxa due to molecular data.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Smirnov2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Tekle YI, Grant J, Anderson OR, et al. (April 2008). "Phylogenetic placement of diverse amoebae inferred from multigene analyses and assessment of clade stability within 'Amoebozoa' upon removal of varying rate classes of SSU-rDNA". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 47 (1): 339–52. Bibcode:2008MolPE..47..339T. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.015. PMID 18180171.
  3. ^ Smirnov AV, Nassonova ES, Cavalier-Smith T (February 2008). "Correct identification of species makes the amoebozoan rRNA tree congruent with morphology for the order Leptomyxida Page 1987; with description of Acramoeba dendroida n. g., n. sp., originally misidentified as 'Gephyramoeba sp.'". Eur. J. Protistol. 44 (1): 35–44. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2007.08.001. PMID 17905574.
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