Testacea may refer to:
* a former order of
rhizopods, which consisted of
testate amoeboid organisms.
* a former group of shelled molluscs and other invertebrates, created by Linnaeus and roughly corresponding to the colloquial term ''
seashell'' (see
Vermes
Vermes ("worms") is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals.
Linnaeus
In Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae'', the Vermes had the rank of class, occupying the 6th (and last) slot of hi ...
).
* a species group of
Drosophila
''Drosophila'' () is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or (less frequently) pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many speci ...
in the
Drosophila (subgenus)
''Drosophila'' is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus ''Drosophila'', a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.Sturtevant, A. H. (1939)On the subdivision of the genus ''Drosophila'' ''Proc ...
.
[Grimaldi, D., James, A.C., Jaenike, J. 1992]
"Systematics and Modes of Reproductive Isolation in the Holarctic Drosophila testacea Species Group (Diptera: Drosophilidae)."
''Ann. Ent. Soc. Am.'', 85(6):http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/6/671
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