Vexillifera

This article is about the genus of amoebas. For the defunct legume genus, see Dussia.

Vexillifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Discosea
Order: Dactylopodida
Family: Vexilliferidae
Genus: Vexillifera
Schaeffer, 1926
Type species
Vexillifera ambulacralis
(Penard 1890) Schaeffer 1926
Species
  • V. abyssalis Kudryavtsev, Pawlowski & Alexey 2018
  • ?V. anapes Bovee 1985
  • ?V. arionoides Bovee 1985
  • V. ambulacralis (Penard 1890) Schaeffer 1926
  • V. armata Page 1979
  • V. aurea Schaeffer 1926
  • V. bacillipedes Page 1969
  • V. browni Sawyer 1975
  • ?V. dadayi (Lepşi 1960)
  • ?V. displacata Bovee 1985
  • ?V. filopodia Bovee 1985
  • V. expectata Dykova et al. 1998
  • V. fluvialis Dykova, Kostka & Peckova 2011
  • V. granatensis Mascaro, Osuna & Mascaro 1986
  • V. kereti Kudryavtsev, Pawlowski & Alexey 2018
  • V. minuta Bovee 1985
  • V. minutissima Bovee & Sawyer 1979
  • V. multispinosa Dykova, Kostka & Peckova 2011
  • V. ottoi Sawyer 1975
  • ?V. spinoa Bovee 1985
  • ?V. subula Bovee 1985
  • V. tasmaniana Dykova, Kostka & Peckova 2011
  • ?V. telma Bovee 1985
  • V. telmathalassa Bovee 1956
  • V. variabilis Bovee 1985
  • ?V. westveldii Van Wichelen & Vanormelingen 2016

Vexillifera is a genus of Amoebozoa.

It is possible for it to be present in swimming pools.[1]

  1. ^ Vesaluoma M, Kalso S, Jokipii L, Warhurst D, Pönkä A, Tervo T (February 1995). "Microbiological quality in Finnish public swimming pools and whirlpools with special reference to free living amoebae: a risk factor for contact lens wearers?". British Journal of Ophthalmology. 79 (2): 178–181. doi:10.1136/bjo.79.2.178. PMC 505052. PMID 7696241.