''Centropyxis'' is a genus of lobose
testate amoebae
Testate amoebae (formerly thecamoebians, Testacea or Thecamoeba) are a polyphyletic group of unicellular amoeboid protists, which differ from naked amoebae in the presence of a test that partially encloses the cell, with an aperture from which th ...
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Amoebozoa
Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In traditional and currently no longer supported c ...
), including the species ''Centropyxis aculeata''.
References
External links
Descriptions and pictures of
Centropyxis' at Microworld
Amoebozoa genera
Taxa named by Johann Philip Emil Friedrich Stein
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