Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Nebela collaris

Nebela collaris

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 Nebela  (Leidy, 1874) sensu Kosakyan et al., 2016

Nebela collaris (Ehrenberg, 1848) sensu Kosakyan et Gomaa, 2013

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Difflugia collaris Ehrenberg, 1848

Add’l Synonyms: Difflugia cancellata Ehrenberg, 1848
                               Difflugia reticulata Ehrenberg, 1848
                               Difflugia carpio Ehrenberg, 1854
                               Difflugia laxa Ehrenberg, 1871
                               Difflugia cellulifera Ehrenberg, 1874
                               Nebela numata Leidy, 1874
                               Nebela collaris (Ehrenberg, 1848) Leidy, 1879
                               Nebela bohemica Taranek, 1882
                               Nebela sphagnophila (Steinecke) Van Oye, 1933
                               Nebela tincta var. major Deflandre, 1936
                               Nebela tincta f. stenostoma Jung, 1936

Nebela collaris

Sampling date 08/2007. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

The image shows details of a Nebela test (shell). To build the test, Nebela collects siliceous scales from consumed euglyphids.

Place name: Bogs near Salzburg (Austria)
Latitude: 48.068516     Longitude: 12.954134

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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