Actinosphaerium

Actinosphaerium
Actinosphaerium eichhornii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Raphidomonadea
Order: Actinophryida
Suborder: Actinosphaerina
Cavalier-Smith, 2013[1]
Family: Actinosphaeriidae
Cavalier-Smith, 2013[1]
Genus: Actinosphaerium
Ritter von Stein, 1857
Type species
Actinosphaerium eichhornii
(Ehrenberg, 1840) Stein, 1857
Synonyms[2]
  • Echinosphoerium/Echinosphaerium Hovasse, 1965
  • Camptonema Schaudinn, 1894

Actinosphaerium is a genus of heliozoa, amoeboid unicellular organisms with many axopodial filaments that radiate out of their cell. It is classified within the monotypic family Actinosphaeriidae and suborder Actinosphaerina. Species of Actinophrys are distinguished by their large number of nuclei in each cell. Their axopodia sometimes terminate on the surface of nuclei. Vacuoles are abundant in the periphery of the cytoplasm.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Incisomonas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Heliozoa III was invoked but never defined (see the help page).