The taxonomic identity in microbial eukaryotes remains an impediment to discussing
ecology, biogeography and phylogeny, mainly due to a lack of standards in organism …

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 …

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 …

The systematics of lobose testate amoebae (Arcellinida), a diverse group of shelled free-
living unicellular eukaryotes, is still mostly based on morphological criteria such as shell …

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 …

The lobose amoebae can be defined as presumably asexual amoeboid organisms,
producing lobopodia and possessing a simple life cycle, involving only cell division and, in …

This study aimed to investigate the testate amoebae (Arcellinida and Eugliphida) species
diversity in plankton, macrophytes and aquatic sediment samples from a shallow lake of the …

We describe a new protosteloid amoeba, Luapeleamoeba hula. Protosteloid amoebae,
sometimes called protostelids, are sporocarpic amoebae that make fruiting bodies that …

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 …