Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)
Observations on Difflugia paulii
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 paulii Ogden, 1983
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: n.a.
Add’l Synonyms: Difflugia oblonga var. elongata Van Oye, 1953
Sampling date 05/2019. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.
Synopsis of test (shell) structure.
Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.
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