Skip to content

Microworld

world of amoeboid organisms

Menu
  • Home
  • Testate Amoebae
    • Close
    • Testate amoebae with finger-shaped, tubular pseudopodia.Lobose – Testate amoebae with finger-shaped, tubular pseudopodia.
    • FiloseFilose – Testate amoebae with filose (filamentous) pseudopodia.
    • Granofilose – Testate amoeboids with granular filose pseudopodia. Granules are evenly distributed and move slowly or not at all. Shell and pseudopodia appressed to the substratum.
    • LacogromiaGranuloreticulose – Testate amoeboid organisms with branched filopodia over which numerous grains move extremely quickly in both directions and which can form an extensive network (reticulum).
    • Close
  • Naked Amoebae
    • Close
    • RhizamoebaLobose – Naked amoebae with finger-shaped, tubular pseudopodia. Some species have subpseudopodia, small extensions of a hyaline anterior zone.
    • LeptomyxaFilose – Naked amoeboid organisms with filamentous pseudopodia.
    • LimnofilaGranofilose – Naked amoeboid organisms with granular filose pseudopodia. Granules are evenly distributed and move slowly or not at all. Pseudopodia usually appressed to the substratum.
    • GranoreticuloseGranoreticulose – Naked amoeboid organisms with branched filopodia over which numerous granules move extremely quickly in both directions and which can form an extensive network (reticulum).
    • Close
  • Heliozoa
  • Biology
  • Methods
  • About
  • Contact

Tag: species

Pseudodifflugia horrida

Pseudodifflugia horrida, after Penard, 1902 Pseudodifflugia horrida Penard, 1902 Diagnosis: Cell covered by a greyish or brownish

Read More »

Pseudodifflugia terricola

Pseudodifflugia terricola, after Bonnet & Thomas, 1960 Pseudodifflugia terricola  Bonnet & Thomas, 1960 *) Basionym: Pseudodifflugia gracilis

Read More »

Pseudodifflugia fulva

Pseudodifflugia fulva, after Penard, 1902 Pseudodifflugia fulva  Archer, 1870 (sensu Penard, 1902) Diagnosis: Shell ovoid and rarely

Read More »

Galeripora purdoni

Galeripora purdoni Taylor B, Porfirio-Sousa, Jones, Seaquist, Siemensma, Taylor E & Tice, 2026 Basionym: Arcella artocrea var.

Read More »

Arcella leydiana

A. leidyana, after Leidy, 1879 Arcella leidyana Deflandre, 1928 Emended diagnosis (not yet formally published): Taylor B,

Read More »

Centropyxis with teeth

Centropyxis sp., ventral view Centropyxis sp. with teeth Diagnosis: Shell hemispherical in lateral view and nearly circular

Read More »

Placocista sinuospina

P. sinuospina — after Chardez, 1966 Placocista sinuospina Chardez, 1966 Diagnosis: Shell regular and oval, with both broad

Read More »

Placocista ventricosa

P. ventricosa — after Thomas and Gauthier-Lièvre, 1959 Placocista ventricosa Thomas & Gauthier-Lièvre, 1959 Diagnosis: Shell hyaline,

Read More »

Placocista setigera

P. setigera — after Wailes, 1912 Placocista setigera Wailes, 1912 *) Basionym: Placocista spinosa var. setigera Wailes,

Read More »

Placocista lapponum

P. lapponum, in frontal and lateral views, and spine and symbiotic algae — after Penard, 1917 Placocista lapponum

Read More »
Page1 Page2 Page3 Page4 Page5 Page6
Copyright © 2026 Microworld | Powered by Ferry Siemensma