''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 (biology), test that partially encloses the cell, with an apert ...
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Amoebozoa
Amoebozoa is a major Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of Amoeba, amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, Pseudopod#Morphology, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In trad ...
), 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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