Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Galeripora arenaria

Galeripora arenaria

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 SphaerothecinaKosakyan, Lara and Lahr, 2016
●●●●●● Family Arcellidae Ehrenberg, 1843
●●●●●●● Genus Galeripora González-Miguéns, Soler-Zamora, Villar-dePablo, Todorov & Lara, 2021

Galeripora arenaria (Greeff, 1866) González-Miguéns et al., 2021

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Arcella arenaria Greeff, 1866

Add’l Synonyms:  Arcella aureola Greeff, 1866
                                Arcella arenaria Maggi, 1888
                                Arcella microstoma Penard, 1890
                                Arcella arenaria f. compressa Chardez, 1957
                                Arcella arenaria var. grandis Bunesco & Matic, 1982
                                Arcella arenaria var. irregularis Decloître, 1972
                                Arcella arenaria var. sphagnicola Deflandre, 1928
                                Arcella arenaria var. sphagnicola f. undulata Decloître, 1965

Galeripora arenaria

Sampling date 04/2021. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Place name: Pond near Großostheim (Germany)
Latitude: 49.88482168     Longitude: 9.09980822

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.

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