Acinetactis
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| Stokes , 1886 |
Acinetactis is a genus of heterotrophic amoeba that belongs to the Cercozoa and forms its own family Acinetactidae . They live freely swimming in fresh water.
features
The representatives are amoeba with two flagella of equal length . They have axopodia of uniform length that contain mobile granules and start from a centrosome in the center of the cell, next to the nucleus , but not from a depression in the nucleus.
Systematics
The genus consists of three genera:
- Acinetactis mirabilis
- Acinetactis arnaudoffii
- Acinetactis elegans (formerly Dimorphiella elegans )
supporting documents
- David Bass, Ema E.-Y.Chao, Sergey Nikolaev, Akinori Yabuki, Ken-ichiro Ishida, Cédric Berney, Ursula Pakzad, Claudia Wylezich, Thomas Cavalier-Smith: Phylogeny of Novel Naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl.n. and Proteomyxidea Revised. In: Protist. Vol. 160, No. 1, 2009, ISSN 1434-4610 , pp. 75-109, doi : 10.1016 / j.protis.2008.07.002 .