Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)
Observations on Hyalosphenia papilio
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 Hyalosphenia (Stein, 1857) Schulze 1877
Hyalosphenia papilio Leidy, 1874
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: n.a.
Add’l Synonyms: n.a.
Sampling date 09/2012. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.
Three images. In the second one, arrows point to the shell pores and the large, circular nucleus in the fundus (posteriorly).
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Place name: Bog Dosenmoor near Neumuenster (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.136219 Longitude: 10.026433
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D.
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