''Prantlitina'' is a poorly studied genus of
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 the ...
discovered in 1957 in
Namurian freshwater sediments from the
Ostrava-
Karviná coal district, in former
Czechoslovakia.
It was placed in the order Thecamoebina in the defunct class
Sarcodina
An amoeba (; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; plural ''am(o)ebas'' or ''am(o)ebae'' ), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopo ...
. Later, in 1993, it was recognized as the earliest fossil member of the family
Difflugiidae, order
Arcellinida,
but after that year it does not appear in any classification of Arcellinida or any other group.
Etymology
The name ''Prantlitina'' was chosen in honor of the
Czechoslovak palaeontologist Dr. Ferdinand Prantl.
Taxonomy
According to the original description, ''Prantlitina'' contains two subgenera and 6 species, of which only 4 are described and named; the remaining two were left undescribed until a future moment where the study material would be better.
* Subgenus ''Prantlitina''
**''P. (Prantlitina) prantli''
**''P. (Prantlitina) šustai''
**''P. (Prantlitina) remeši''
*Subgenus ''Prantlitinopsis''
** ''P. (Prantlitinopsis) štúri''
** ''P. (Prantlitinopsis)'' sp. (two undescribed species)
References
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Tubulinea
Amoebozoa genera