Acinetactis

Acinetactis
Acinetactis mirabilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): incertae sedis
Family: Acinetactidae
Stokes 1886
Genus: Acinetactis
Stokes 1886
Type species
Acinetactis mirabilis
Stokes 1886
Species

Acinetactis is a genus of protist first described in 1886 by A.C. Stokes, who also described the type species A. mirabilis. In 1928, Valkanov reported the discovery of a second species, A. arnaudovii. The most recently recorded specimen of A. mirabilis was reported in 1940, no Acinetactis specimens have been reported since.

The validity and classification of this genus is contested. In 1914, Adolf Pascher cast doubt on Acinetactis, suggesting that it was a junior synonym of Dimorpha mutans. Bass et al. suggested in 2009 that the genus was a cercozoan in the class Granofilosea. It was also suggested that it could be a pansomonad.

References

  1. ↑ Stokes (1886), "Notices of new fresh-water infusoria", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 23: 562–568
  2. ↑ Valkanov (1928), "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Flagellaten von Bulgarien", Izvestiya Na Bulgarskoto Botanichesko Druzhestvo, 1: 105–120
  3. ↑ Lackey (1940), "The Microscopic Flora and Fauna of Tree Holes", Ohio Journal of Science, 40 (4): 186–192
  4. ↑ Pascher (1914), Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, vol. 1, p. 51
  5. ↑ Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, et al. (February 2009). "Phylogeny of Novel Naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea Revised". Protist. 160 (1): 75–109. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.07.002. PMID 18952499.
  6. ↑ Yabuki, Akinori; Chao, Ema E.; Ishida, Ken-Ichiro; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2012-05-01). "Microheliella maris (Microhelida ord. n.), an Ultrastructurally Highly Distinctive New Axopodial Protist Species and Genus, and the Unity of Phylum Heliozoa". Protist. 163 (3): 356–388. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.10.001. ISSN 1434-4610.