Thursday, December 21, 2006

Checklist of testate amoebas of Venezuela (Decloitre, 1963)

Decloitre (1963) recognizes 5 species of Arcella in Venezuela. As far as I know, there are no other species checklists of testate amoebas of Venezuela. Decloitre (1963) listed a total of 76 species of testate amoebas species for Venezuela in 15 different genera. The following is the list of species for the genus Arcella.

Genus: Arcella Ehrenberg

Arcella conica Ehrenberg
Arcella hemisphaerica Perty
Arcella hemisphaerica var gibba Deflandre
Arcella lobostoma Deflandre
Arcella polypora Pénard


Decloitre, L. 1963. Rhizopodes Thécamoebiens du Vénézuéla. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 141(3): 497-514.

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