Lobosa

Lobosa
Amoeba proteus (Tubulinea)
Amoeba proteus (Tubulinea)
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
(disputed)
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Subphylum: Lobosa
Carpenter, 1861, em. Cavalier-Smith, 2009
Groups included
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa

Lobosa is a taxonomic group of amoebae in the phylum Amoebozoa. Most lobosans possess broad, bluntly rounded pseudopods, although one genus in the group, the recently discovered Sapocribrum, has slender and threadlike (filose) pseudopodia.[1] In current classification schemes, Lobosa is a subphylum, composed mainly of amoebae that have lobose pseudopods but lack cilia or flagella.[2][3]

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