Euglypha

Housing a Euglypha Type

Euglypha is a genus beschalter amoebae from the order of Euglyphida. It is often, usually lives than herbivores in moist and contains about 40 species in three groups.

Description

The housing are elongate oval or pear-shaped and are composed of imbricated overlapping, circular to elliptic, thin flakes that are arranged in longitudinal rows. At the opening always be shed with serrated edge, which serve as a diagnostic feature. The housing can be thorny.

Dissemination

Euglypha species are common and usually live as herbivores in mosses, especially Sphagnum, in aquatic vegetation but also in acidic and organic soils.

System

The genus was first described in 1841 by Félix Dujardin, the type species is Euglypha tuberculata. It contains about 40 species and about double the number of subspecies. Euglypha is traditionally divided into three groups with no taxonomic importance:

  • Group I: The case is round in cross section, the opening as well, a possible spines is an appendage of dandruff. representatives: Euglypha acanthophora
  • Euglypha tuberculata
  • Group II: The case is in the cross- section elliptical, aperture more or less circular, a spines is not an appendix of dandruff. representatives: Euglypha strigosa
  • Group III: The body is flattened, the opening elliptical. representatives: Euglypha compressa

Other types (selection):

  • Euglypha ciliata
  • Euglypha laevis

Evidence

  • Ralf Meister field: attestations Amoeba With Filipodia In: John J. Lee, Gordon F. Leedale, Phyllis Bradbury (Ed.): Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa, 2nd Edition. Vol 2, Society of protozoologists, Lawrence, Kansas in 2000, ISBN 1-891276-23-9, pp. 1067-1068.
Rhizaria Cercozoa
319295
de