Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)
Observations on Lesquereusia epistomium
Protisten / Protisten.de – created by Wolfgang Bettighofer / Testata Amoeboid Organisms / Amoebozoa / Tubulinea / Elardia / Arcellinida / Glutinoconcha / Longithecina / Lesquereusiidae / Lesquereusia epistomium
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 Lesquereusiidae Jung, 1942
●●●●●●● Genus Lesquereusia Schlumberger, 1845
Lesquereusia epistomium Penard, 1902
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: n.a.
Add’l Synonyms: n.a.
Sampling date 06/2023. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.
Place name: Wetland Paradieswiese near Kitzbühel (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.47375067 Longitude: 12.37624884
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.
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