Himatismenida is an
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 ...
order,
in the class
Discosea
Discosea is a class of Amoebozoa, consisting of naked amoebae with a flattened, discoid body shape. Members of the group do not produce tubular or subcylindrical pseudopodia, like amoebae of the class Tubulinea. When a discosean is in motion, a ...
, along with
Glycostylida and
Dermamoebida
The Flabellinia are a subclass of Amoebozoa. During locomotion the cells are flattened and have a clear layer called ''hyaloplasm'' along the front margin. Some form slender subpseudopodia projecting outward from the hyaloplasm, but the cell ma ...
.
It contains species such as ''
Cochliopodium
''Cochliopodium'' is a Himatismenida genus.
It has been found in eyewash stations.
It includes:
* ''C. actinophorum'' (Auerbach 1856) Page 1976
* ?''C. ambiguum'' Penard 1904
* ''C. arabianum'' Tekle, Gorfu & Anderson 2015
* ''C. barki'' Kudrya ...
gallicum''.
References
Amoebozoa orders
Discosea
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