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Cryptodifflugia minuta Playfair 1917, comb. nov.
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Description
C. minuta (Playfair, 1917) comb. nov.
Figs 5 e, 5f
Difflugiella minuta Grospietsch, 1964
Original description. Playfair 1917, P. 656, Table 138, Fig. 12.
Description. Shell small, ovate, circular in transverse section, rounded aborally, and with sides converging to a very narrow apertural part, aperture very narrow, often just a pore, with thickened rim, or sometimes with a very narrow but distinct collar, shell surface smooth.
Measurements. Shell length 10–13 µm, shell width 8–9 µm, aperture diameter 2–3 µm.
Habitat. Freshwater, bogs.
Geographical distribution. Australia, Russia, Crozet and Possession Island, Greenland, USA.
Notes
Published as part of Bobrov, Anatoly & Mazei, Yuri, 2017, A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 (Phryganellina: Cryptodifflugiidae) with a key to species, pp. 292-308 in Zootaxa 4282 (2) on page 301, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/818668
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Playfair
- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Phylum
- Amoebozoa
- Order
- Arcellinida
- Family
- Cryptodifflugiidae
- Genus
- Cryptodifflugia
- Species
- minuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptodifflugia minuta (Playfair, 1917) sec. Bobrov & Mazei, 2017
References
- Playfair, G. I. (1917) Rhizopods of Sydney and Lismore. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 42, 633 - 675. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 4865
- Grospietsch, Th. (1964) Die Gattungen Cryptodifflugia und Difflugiella (Rhizopoden Testacea). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 172, 243 - 257.