Dactylopodida Smirnov et al., 2005, sensu Kang et al. 2017

Diagnosis: Locomotive form mostly has a shape of an irregular triangle with basement directed forward; wide anterior hyaloplasm; fibrous axial cores both in dactylopodia and in the floating pseudopodia.
Parasomes in Paramoeba and Neoparamoeba; cysts unknown; without fibrous axial cores both in dactylopodia and in the floating pseudopodia; cortex with extracellular scales, pentagonal or hexagonal glycostyles or a complex fibrous ‘cuticle’.

Remarks: The name “dactylopodida” refers to the finger-shaped pseudopodia, also called dactylopodia, which are common for this taxon, see the image below.

Incertae sedis. Boveella, Dactylosphaerium, Oscillosignum, Podostoma, Striolatus, Subulamoeba,Trienamoeba.

Korotnevella species
Korotnevella spec.
Ferry Siemensma, created March 2, 2019; last modified March 15, 2023
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