Testacea may refer to:
* a former order of
rhizopod
An amoeba (; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; : amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae) ), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and re ...
s, which consisted of
testate amoeboid organisms.
* a former group of shelled molluscs and other invertebrates, created by Linnaeus and roughly corresponding to the colloquial term ''
seashell
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea. Most seashells are made by Mollusca, mollusks, such as snails, clams, and oysters ...
'' (see
Vermes
Vermes ("vermin/vermes") is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals.
Linnaeus
In Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae'', the Vermes had the rank of class (biology), class, occupying th ...
).
* a species group of ''
Drosophila
''Drosophila'' (), from Ancient Greek δρόσος (''drósos''), meaning "dew", and φίλος (''phílos''), meaning "loving", is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or p ...
'' in the
''Drosophila'' subgenus.
[Grimaldi, D., James, A.C., Jaenike, J. 1992]
"Systematics and Modes of Reproductive Isolation in the Holarctic Drosophila testacea Species Group (Diptera: Drosophilidae)."
''Ann. Ent. Soc. Am.'', 85(6):http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/6/671
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