Testate Amoebae –
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Observations on Galeripora artocrea

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

Galeripora artocrea (Leidy, 1876) González-Miguéns et al., 2021

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Arcella artocrea Leidy, 1876

Add’l Synonyms: Arcella artocrea var. aplanata Grospietsch, 1954
Arcella artocrea var. catinus Van Oye, 1941
Arcella artocrea var. pseudocatinus Deflandre, 1928

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 20 µm (2).

Two images.

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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

Sampling date 06/2025. Scale bar indicates 100 µm.

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 image.

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

Five images of two specimens from different angles or optical cross-sectional images.

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Place name: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.531785 Longitude: 12.573095 Elevation: 836 m

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

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

Three images. The third image is a close-up of the second image, showing the opening and the very finely structured building units of the shell.

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Place name: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.531785 Longitude: 12.573095 Elevation: 836 m

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

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