Name - Difflugia bacillariarum Perty 1849

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:502095 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Difflugia bacillariarum

• Difflugia bicornis Penard 1890

• Difflugia styla Ogden & Zivkovic 1983

• Cylindrifflugia bacillariarum (Perty 1849)

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Recent Publications

• Designation of type, for one genus and nine species of arcellaceans (thecamoebians), with additional original reference material for four other species.
• A survey of the testate amoeba genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815 based on specimens in the E. Penard and CG Ogden collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Part 1: Species with shells that are pointed aborally and/or have aboral protuberances.
• Deconstructing Difflugia: The tangled evolution of lobose testate amoebae shells (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) illustrates the importance of convergent evolution in protist phylogeny.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Mitth. Nat. Ges. Bern, 1849 1849: 27. [Index Animalium Entry]

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