''Gephyramoeba'' is a genus of

heterotrophic A heterotroph (; ) is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, but ...

amoebae, morphologically similar to genera ''

Rhizamoeba ''Rhizamoeba'' is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae in the order Leptomyxida. It is most closely related to '' Leptomyxa'' and ''Flabellula'', and some species have been moved to ' ...

'' and ''

Leptomyxa ''Leptomyxa'' is a free-living genus of lobose naked multinucleate amoebae in the order Leptomyxida that inhabits freshwater, soil and mosses. It is very closely related to the genus ''Rhizamoeba'', and some species have been moved between the ...

'', although it is not genetically related to either of these genera. It has been suggested that "Gephyramoeba sp." ATCC 50654 is not truly ''Gephyramoeba''.

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External links

''Gephyramoeba'' on PubMed
Amoebozoa genera {{Amoebozoa-stub