Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)

Observations on Cylindrifflugia elegans

Taxonomic tree according to Lahr et al., 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.078)
and González-Miguéns et al., 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107557)

Amorphea Adl et al., 2012
Amoebozoa Lühe, 1913, renewed definition Cavalier-Smith, 1998
● Tubulinea Smirnov et al., 2005
●● Elardia, Kang et al., 2017
●●● Order Arcellinida Kent, 1880
●●●● Suborder Glutinoconcha Lahr et al., 2019
●●●●● Infraorder Cylindrothecina González-Miguéns et al., 2022
●●●●●● Family Cylindrifflugidae González-Miguéns et al., 2022 (only one genus)
●●●●●●● Genus Cylindrifflugia González-Miguéns et al., 2022

Cylindrifflugia elegans (Penard, 1890) González-Miguéns et al., 2022

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Difflugia elegans Penard, 1890

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Sampling date 06/2023. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Difflugia elegans usually use sand grains and diatom frustules for building their tests.

First:	The specimen used a frustule of Frustulia spec.
Second:	The other side of the test.
Third:	Test of another specimen.

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Place name: Wetland Paradieswiese near Kitzbühel (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.47375067 Longitude: 12.37624884

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

Sampling date 10/2019. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Cell shortly before binary fission carrying parts for the new test for the daughter cell. Sampling date 10/2019. Image was taken using a dissecting microscope.

Place name: Bog Waasenmoos Pass Thurn near Mittersil (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.30234117 Longitude: 12.41751194

Microscope Olympus SZX16, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.

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The same cell after transfer from a Petri dish to a slide. Two images with (a) focus on the test (shell) and (b) focus on the cell contents.

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Place name: Bog Waasenmoos Pass Thurn near Mittersil (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.30234117 Longitude: 12.41751194

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Another cell in the sample. Two images with (a) focus on the test (shell) and (b) focus on the cell contents.

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Place name: Bog Waasenmoos Pass Thurn near Mittersil (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.30234117 Longitude: 12.41751194

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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Observations on Cylindrifflugia elegans

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