Nanofila marina
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| Nanofilidae | ||||||||||||
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| Nanofila | ||||||||||||
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| Nanofila marina | ||||||||||||
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Nanofila marina is a type of heterotrophic amoeba that belongs to the Cercozoa andformsits own family Nanofilidae . She lives in the sea.
features
They are small, heterotrophic amoebas with unbranched, granular filopodia . During the ingestion of food they are pressed against the substrate. The cells are around 3 micrometers in diameter and have around six very thin filopodia. There are no flagella .
Systematics
Nanofila marina is the sister group of a large clade of undescribed environmental DNA samples within a larger clade that is grouped together as the class Granofilosea .
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 . Protist, 2008 doi : 10.1016 / j.protis.2008.07.002