Testacea may refer to:
* a former order of
rhizopod
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s, 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
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'' (see
Vermes).
* 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 s ...
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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