Rhizamoeba
Rhizamoeba is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae in the order Leptomyxida. It is most closely related to Leptomyxa and Flabellula, and some species have been moved to Leptomyxa due to molecular data.
| Rhizamoeba | |
|---|---|
| Different monopodial shapes of Rhizamoeba (clockwise from top left): worm-like, static, flattened, clavate. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Tubulinea |
| Order: | Leptomyxida |
| Family: | Rhizamoebidae |
| Genus: | Rhizamoeba Page 1972 em. Smirnov et al. 2016 |
| Type species | |
| Rhizamoeba polyura Page 1972 | |
| Species | |
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