| Rhizamoeba | |
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| Different monopodial shapes of Rhizamoeba (clockwise from top left): worm-like, static, flattened, clavate. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Tubulinea |
| Order: | Leptomyxida |
| Family: | Rhizamoebidae |
| Genus: | Rhizamoeba Page 1972 em. Smirnov et al. 2016 |
| Type species | |
| Rhizamoeba polyura Page 1972
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| Species | |
Rhizamoeba is a small genus of free-living marine naked lobose amoebae in the monotypic family Rhizamoebidae[1] in the order Leptomyxida.[2][3] It is most closely related to Leptomyxa and Flabellula, and some species have been moved to Leptomyxa due to molecular data.[1]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Smirnov2017was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Tekle YI, Grant J, Anderson OR, et al. (April 2008). "Phylogenetic placement of diverse amoebae inferred from multigene analyses and assessment of clade stability within 'Amoebozoa' upon removal of varying rate classes of SSU-rDNA". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 47 (1): 339–52. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.015. PMID 18180171.
- ^ Smirnov AV, Nassonova ES, Cavalier-Smith T (February 2008). "Correct identification of species makes the amoebozoan rRNA tree congruent with morphology for the order Leptomyxida Page 1987; with description of Acramoeba dendroida n. g., n. sp., originally misidentified as 'Gephyramoeba sp.'". Eur. J. Protistol. 44 (1): 35–44. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2007.08.001. PMID 17905574.