Genus Claparedellus Khanipour Roshan and Clauß, 2020

Diagnosis: Multinucleate organic-walled monothalamous foraminifera. Shell spherical to elongated pyriform or irregularly shaped, with a hyaline, flexible, membranous wall, varying in thickness. Aperture terminal, straight or oblique. Peduncle relatively narrow, asymmetrical and surrounded by a hyaline peduncular sheath. Nuclei spherical, ovular, with a hemispherical eccentric nucleolus. Cytoplasm without crystals.

Type species: Claparedellus lachmannii 

Species assigned: C. lachmannii 

References: Siemensma, F., Holzmann, M., Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, L., Clauß, S., Voelcker, E., Bettighofer, W., Roshan, S.K., Walden, S., Dumack, K., Pawlowski, J., 2021. Broad sampling of monothalamids (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) gives further insight into diversity of non-marine Foraminifera. European Journal of Protistology 77, 125744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125744