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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 ...

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Flabellula citata Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula hoguae'', '' Paraflabellula reniformis'', '' Rhizamoeba saxonica'' and '' Leptomyxa reticulata''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of Leptomyxida ...

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Paraflabellula hoguae Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula hoguae'', '' Paraflabellula reniformis'', '' Rhizamoeba saxonica'' and '' Leptomyxa reticulata''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of Leptomyxida ...

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Paraflabellula reniformis Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula hoguae'', '' Paraflabellula reniformis'', '' Rhizamoeba saxonica'' and '' Leptomyxa reticulata''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of Leptomyxida ...

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Rhizamoeba saxonica ''Rhizamoeba'' is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae in the order Leptomyxida. It is most closely related to '' Leptomyxa'' and '' Flabellula'', and some species have been moved to '' ...

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Leptomyxa reticulata ''Leptomyxa reticulata'' is a species of Amoebozoa. A relationship to ''Rhizamoeba'' has been suggested. See also * Leptomyxida Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula ho ...

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Taxonomy

The taxonomy of Leptomyxida as revised in 2017 recognizes 23 confirmed species: *Order Leptomyxida **Family

Leptomyxidae Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula hoguae'', '' Paraflabellula reniformis'', '' Rhizamoeba saxonica'' and '' Leptomyxa reticulata''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of Leptomyxida ...

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Leptomyxa ''Leptomyxa'' is a free-living genus of lobose naked multinucleate amoebae in the order Leptomyxida that inhabits freshwater, soil and mosses. It is very closely related to the genus ''Rhizamoeba'', and some species have been moved between the t ...

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Rhizamoebidae ''Rhizamoeba'' is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae in the order Leptomyxida. It is most closely related to '' Leptomyxa'' and '' Flabellula'', and some species have been moved to '' ...

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Rhizamoeba ''Rhizamoeba'' is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae in the order Leptomyxida. It is most closely related to '' Leptomyxa'' and '' Flabellula'', and some species have been moved to '' ...

'' — 3 species **Family

Flabellulidae Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula hoguae'', '' Paraflabellula reniformis'', '' Rhizamoeba saxonica'' and '' Leptomyxa reticulata''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of Leptomyxida ...

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Flabellula ''Flabellula'' is a genus of 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 traditiona ...

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Paraflabellula ''Paraflabellula'' is a genus of 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 traditi ...

'' ) — 10 species **Family

Gephyramoebidae Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa. It includes species such as '' Flabellula citata'', '' Paraflabellula hoguae'', '' Paraflabellula reniformis'', '' Rhizamoeba saxonica'' and '' Leptomyxa reticulata''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of Leptomyxida ...

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Gephyramoeba ''Gephyramoeba'' is a genus of heterotrophic amoebae, morphologically similar to genera '' Rhizamoeba'' and '' Leptomyxa'', although it is not genetically Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, ...

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References

External links

* Amoebozoa orders Tubulinea {{Amoebozoa-stub