Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)
Observations on Planocarina marginata
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 Planocarina Kosakyan, Lahr, Mulot, Meisterfeld, Mitchell and Lara, 2016
Planocarina marginata (Penard, 1902) Kosakyan, Lahr, Mulot, Meisterfeld, Mitchell and Lara, 2016
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: Nebela marginata Penard, 1902
Add’l Synonyms: Pterygia marginata (Penard, 1902) Jung, nom. inval. 1942
Sampling date 06/2023. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1, 3), 100 µm (5).
Five images.
First couple: | Synoptic representation of the shell, followed by an enlarged detail (two arrows mark the eponymous flat zone at the shell edge). |
Second couple: | Middle plane of the shell with the flat zone, followed by an enlarged view (two arrows mark the flat zone). |
Fifth: | Three-dimensional depiction of the test using a dissecting microscope with a high-aperture objective (n. A. = 0.3). |
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Place name: Wetland Paradieswiese near Kitzbühel (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.47375067 Longitude: 12.37624884
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan and Olympus stereomicroscope SZX16, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1, 2).
Species of the genus Planocarina usually incorporate test (shell) plates from consumed euglyphids.
First: | Synoptic representation of the test (shell). |
Second: | Transversal layer of the test showing the flat zone typical for genus Planocarina. |
Third: | A zoom-in (two arrows mark the flat zone). |
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.
© Wolfgang Bettighofer,
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