Nuclearia

Nuclearia
Nuclearia thermophila
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Amorphea
Clade: Obazoa
Clade: Opisthokonta
Clade: Holomycota
Order: Rotosphaerida
Family: Nucleariidae
Genus: Nuclearia
Cienkowsky, 1865
Type species
Nuclearia simplex
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Astrodisculus Greeff 1869
  • Heliosphaerium Frenzel 1897
  • Nuclearella Frenzel 1897
  • Nuclearina Frenzel 1897
  • Nucleosphaerium Cann & Page 1979

Nuclearia is a genus of nucleariid amoebae with filose pseudopodia and discoid mitochondrial cristae.

Nominal species treated as members of the genus include:

The type species is Nuclearia delicatula, which may adopt a spherical or a flattened body form.

There is considerable uncertainty as to the identity of species and genera, and this led to the inclusion in Nuclearia of taxa previously assigned to Astrodisculus, Nuclearella, Nuclearina, Heliosphaerium and Nucleosphaerium, and the diversity rendered to 9 clearly distinguishable species with the affinities of Astrodisculus araneiformis, A. minuta and A. marinus remaining unclear

References

  1. ↑ Cienkowsky, Leon (1865). "Arch. mikr. Anat.". Biodiversitylibrary.org. pp. 203–232.
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  3. ↑ Linda A. Amaral Zettler; Thomas A. Nerad; Charles J. O'Kelly; Mitchell L. Sogin (2001). "The nucleariid amoebae: more protists at the animal-fungal boundary". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 48 (3): 293–297. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00317.x. PMID 11411837.
  4. ↑ I. Dyková; M. Veverková; I. Fiala; B. Macháčková; H. Pecková (2003). "Nuclearia pattersoni sp. n. (Filosea), a new species of amphizoic amoeba isolated from gills of roach (Rutilus rutilus), and its rickettsial endosymbiont". Folia Parasitologica. 50 (3): 161–170. doi:10.14411/fp.2003.030. PMID 14535340.
  5. ↑ Masaki Yoshida, Takeshi Nakayama & Isao Inouye (2009). "Nuclearia thermophila sp. nov. (Nucleariidae), a new nucleariid species isolated from Yunoko Lake in Nikko (Japan)". European Journal of Protistology. 45 (2): 147–155. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2008.09.004. PMID 19157810.
  6. ↑ Patterson, D. J. 1984. The genus Nuclearia (Sarcodina, Filosea): species composition and characteristics of the taxa. Arch. Protistenk. 128:127-139.