Flagship species are defined as microbial eukaryote species with characteristic
morphologies and restricted geographic distributions. These are proposed as ideal systems …

Arcellinida are free-living lobose amoebae that produce an outer shell (test). Here, we
describe a conspicuous new species, Arcella gandalfi sp. nov, from Brazilian continental …

There has only been one study on the ecology of testate amoebae from Amazonian
peatlands, despite Amazonia being a biodiversity hotspot of global importance. During …

New records of testate lobose amoebae (Protozoa, Arcellinida) for the Upper Paraná River
floodplain. Until the present study, 91 infrageneric testate amoebae taxa were recorded in …

Aim The question whether free‐living protists are generally cosmopolitan is currently a
matter of debate. In this study we investigate the geographical distribution of a distinctive …

Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): model of organisms for assessing
microbial biogeography Page 121 7 Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) …

Abstract Testate (shell‐building) amoebae, such as the Arcellinida (Amoebozoa), are useful
bioindicators for climate change. Though past work has relied on morphological analyses to …

Testate lobose amoebae (order Arcellinida Kent, 1880) are common in all aquatic and
terrestrial habitats, yet they are one of the last higher taxa of unicellular eukaryotes that has …

Testate amoebae are single-celled protists whose protoplasm is contained within a
carapace composed of gelatinous to imbricated chitinous plates having variable chemical …

Microbial diversity is known to be huge but remains only partly documented. Testate
amoebae are a relatively well studied group or free-living protists that build morphologically …