''Centropyxis'' is a genus of lobose

testate amoebae Testate amoebae (formerly thecamoebians, Testacea or Thecamoeba) are a polyphyletic group of unicellular amoeboid protists, which differ from naked amoebae in the presence of a test that partially encloses the cell, with an aperture from which the ...

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Amoebozoa Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In traditional and currently no longer supported classi ...

), including the species ''Centropyxis aculeata''.

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Descriptions and pictures of
Centropyxis
' at Microworld Amoebozoa genera Taxa named by Johann Philip Emil Friedrich Stein {{Amoebozoa-stub