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

Observations on Difflugia capreolata

Protisten / Protisten.de – created by Wolfgang Bettighofer / Testata Amoeboid Organisms / Amoebozoa / Tubulinea / Elardia / Arcellinida / Glutinoconcha / Longithecina / Difflugiidae / Difflugia capreolata

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 capreolata Penard, 1902

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 100 µm.

Three images. Amoeba from different perspectives.

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Place name: Bog Simamoor near Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.583121 Longitude: 12.617422 Elevation: 749 m

(1) Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.

(2, 3) Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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Observations on Difflugia capreolata

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