The Flabellinia are a subclass of
Amoebozoa. During locomotion the cells are flattened and have a clear layer called ''hyaloplasm'' along the front margin. Some form slender subpseudopodia projecting outward from the hyaloplasm, but the cell mass does not flow into these as in true pseudopodia, and advances without a definite central axis as in the
Tubulinea
The Tubulinea are a major grouping of Amoebozoa, including most of the more familiar amoebae genera like ''Amoeba'', '' Arcella'', ''Difflugia'' and '' Hartmannella''.
Characteristics
During locomotion most Tubulinea have a roughly cylindrical f ...
. They also lack distinctive features like shells and
flagella, and are united mainly by evidence from molecular trees.
The group was originally created by Alexey Smirnov and his coauthors as the class Flabellinea, which was similar in composition to the group Discosea, proposed by Cavalier-Smith ''et al.'' (2004). In 2011, Smirnov accepted Discosea as a class and reduced Flabellinea to the rank of a subclass, with the name Flabellinia.
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Discosea
Amorphea subclasses
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