Amphitrema is a genus of testate amoeba in the family Amphitremidae. The genus is commonly found in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands. All species of this genus are mixotrophic and harbor unicellular algae belonging to genus Chlorella.
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| Genus: | Amphitrema Archer 1758
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Species
edit- ?Amphitrema congolense van Oye 1957
- ?Amphitrema jollyi Van Oye 1956
- ?Amphitrema paparoensis Van Oye 1956
- Amphitrema stenostoma Nusslin 1884
- Amphitrema wrightianum Archer 1869
References
edit- ^ Adl SM, Simpson AG, Lane CE, Lukeš J, Bass D, Bowser SS, Brown MW, Burki F, Dunthorn M, Hampl V, Heiss A, Hoppenrath M, Lara E, Le Gall L, Lynn DH, McManus H, Mitchell EA, Mozley-Stanridge SE, Parfrey LW, Pawlowski J, Rueckert S, Shadwick L, Shadwick L, Schoch CL, Smirnov A, Spiegel FW (2012). "The revised classification of eukaryotes". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 59 (5): 429–93. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x. PMC 3483872. PMID 23020233.
- Gomaa F, Mitchell EAD, Lara E. 2013 Amphitremida (Poche, 1913) is a new major, ubiquitous labyrinthulomycete clade. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53046. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053046
- Gomaa F, Kosakyan A, Heger TJ, Corsaro D, Mitchell EAD, Lara E. 2014. One Alga to Rule them All: Unrelated Mixotrophic Testate Amoebae (Amoebozoa, Rhizaria and Stramenopiles) Share the Same Symbiont (Trebouxiophyceae). Protist 165(2): 161-176. doi: /10.1016/j.protis.2014.01.002