Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)
Observations on Difflugia brevicolla
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 Longithecina Lahr et al., 2019
●●●●●● Family Difflugiidae Wallich, 1864
●●●●●●● Genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815
Difflugia brevicolla Cash & Hopkinson, 1909
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: n.a.
Add’l Synonyms: n.a.
Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2).
Two images. Whole tests in side view and view of the aperture at an oblique angle.
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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 100 µm.
Two images. Whole tests in apertural view and view of the aperture at an oblique angle.
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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m
Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1,2), 2 µm (3), 5 µm (4), 2 µm (5), 10 µm (6).
Six images.
| First and second: | Complete tests. In addition to the many diatom frustules incorporated into the amoeba shells, uredospores (fruiting bodies of rust fungi, arrowhead) and cysts of chrysophytes (double arrowhead) are also found. Scale bars indicate 50 µm. |
| Third: | Detail view. Chrysophyte cyst and diatom frustules. Scale bar indicates 2 µm. |
| Fourth: | Detail view. Uredospores and diatom frustules. Scale bar indicates 5 µm. |
| Fifth: | Detail. During the preparation, scales of Centroplasthelida (genus Acanthocystis) were deposited on the shell. Scale bars indicate 2 µm. |
| Sixth: | Detail. View into the aperture of the shell. Scale bars indicate 2 µm. |
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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m
Tescan Clara SEM, © Wolfgang Bettighofer/Jürgen Stampfl
Uredospores from the water sample used above
Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.
Four images. Top view and optical cross-sections through uredospores (fruiting bodies of rust fungi).
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Place name: Moor called Schwemm near Walchsee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.657707 Longitude: 12.299540 Elevation: 669 m
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 10 µm (2).
Two images. Entire test and detail vision.
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 Elevation: 777 m
Tescan Clara SEM, © Wolfgang Bettighofer/Jürgen Stampfl
© Wolfgang Bettighofer,
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cinctum
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lunatus
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