Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Gibbocarina gracilis

Gibbocarina gracilis

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 gracilis (Penard, 1910) Kosakyan, Lahr, Mulot, Meisterfeld, Mitchell and Lara, 2016

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Nebela gracilis Penard, 1910

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Gibbocarina gracilis

Sampling date 06/2023. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

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

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

Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1, 2), 25 µm (3).

Three images. In the third one, arrows point to the two lateral pores.

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

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

Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Species of the genus Gibbocarina usually incorporate shell plates from consumed euglyphids into their shells.

Two images. In the second one, arrows point to the two lateral pores.

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

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

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