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

Observations on Gibbocarina galeata

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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 Hyalospheniformes Lahr et al., 2019
●●●●●● Family Hyalospheniidae Schultze, 1877 emend. Kosakyan and Lara, 2012
●●●●●●● Genus Gibbocarina Kosakyan, Lahr, Mulot, Meisterfeld, Mitchell and Lara 2016

Gibbocarina galeata (Penard, 1890) Kosakyan, Lahr, Mulot, Meisterfeld, Mitchell and Lara, 2016

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Nebela galeata Penard, 1890

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Four images. Whole test, two optical cross-sections and a top view.

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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m

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

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Three images. Whole test and two optical cross-sections.

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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m

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

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bar indicates 10 µm.

The images is showing the nucleus, food vacuoles, and silicious scales of digested euglyphids (bright shiny narrow deposits, often lying in small groups).

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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m

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

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 10 µm (2), 5 µm (3).

Three images. The entire test and two detailed images showing that diatom shells have also been incorporated into the test.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m

Tescan Clara SEM, © Wolfgang Bettighofer/Jürgen Stampfl

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Place name: Wetland Paradieswiese near Kitzbühel (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.47375067 Longitude: 12.37624884 Elevation: 777 m

Tescan Clara SEM, © Wolfgang Bettighofer/Jürgen Stampfl

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Observations on Gibbocarina galeata

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