Meisterfeldia

Meisterfeldia
Meisterfeldia turfacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Tubulinea
Order: Arcellinida
Family: Cryptodifflugiidae
Genus: Meisterfeldia
Bobrov 2016[1]
Type species
Meisterfeldia chibisovi
Bobrov 2016
Species[1][2]

Meisterfeldia is a genus of arcellinid testate amoebae erected in 2016 that unites several new species as well as old species previously found in the genus Cryptodifflugia.[1][3] Five of the newly described species were first found and isolated from subarctic tundra soil surrounding a river near Chokurdakh, Russia,[1] while the last one, described in 2021, was recovered from tree hollows in Moscow.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d Bobrov, Anatoly (2016). "Description of a New Testate Amoebae Genus Meisterfeldia with Notes on the Systematics of the Suborder Phryganellina (Amebozoa; Tubulinea; Arcellinida)". Acta Protozoologica. 55: 211–219. doi:10.4467/16890027AP.16.020.6007.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference bitsevi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Lahr D, Kosakyan A, Lara E, Mitchell E, Morais L, Porfirio-Sousa AL, Ribeiro GM, Tice AK, Pánek T, Kang S, Brown MW (2019). "Phylogenomics and Morphological Reconstruction of Arcellinida Testate Amoebae Highlight Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes in the Neoproterozoic". Current Biology. 29 (6): 991–1001. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.078. hdl:11380/1301486. PMID 30827918.