Echinamoebidae is a family of

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 ...

, containing the genera '' Echinamoeba'' and '' Comandonia''. It was established by Frederick Page in 1975.

Taxonomy

Family Echinamoebidae Page 1975 * Genus '' Comandonia'' Sawyer & Griffin 1975 ex Pernin & Pussard 1979 ** Species '' C. operculata'' Sawyer & Griffin 1975 ex Pernin & Pussard 1979 * Genus '' Micriamoeba'' Atlan et al. 2012 ** Species '' M. tesseris'' Atlan et al. 2012 * Genus '' Echinamoeba'' Page 1975 ** Species '' E. exudans'' (Page 1967) Page 1975 ** Species '' E. silvestris'' Page 1975 ** Species '' E. thermarum'' Baumgartner et al. 2003

References

Amoebozoa families {{Amoebozoa-stub