Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Nebela tincta

Nebela tincta

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 tincta (Leidy, 1879) sensu Kosakyan et Gomaa, 2013

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Hyalosphenia tincta Leidy, 1879

Add’l Synonyms: Nebela bursella Vejdovsky, 1882
                               Nebela minor Penard, 1902
                               Nebela tincta (Leidy 1879) Awerintzew 1906
                               Nebela parvula Cash 1909

Nebela tincta

Sampling date 06/2013. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

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

Place name: Wetland Grünbichel near Fieberbrunn (Tyrol, Austria) 
Latitude: 47.484885     Longitude: 12.546114

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Canon EOS 600D.

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