Vampyrellida

Vampyrellida
"Vampyrella lateritia"
Vampyrella lateritia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Endomyxa
Class: Vampyrellidea
Cavalier-Smith 2018[2]
Order: Vampyrellida
West 1901, emend. Hess et al. 2012[1]
Clades[3]
Diversity[3]
48 species
Synonyms[4]

Aconchulinida De Saedeleer 1934

The vampyrellids (order Vampyrellida, class Vampyrellidea), colloquially known as vampire amoebae, are a group of free-living predatory amoebae classified as part of the lineage Endomyxa. They are distinguished from other groups of amoebae by their irregular cell shape with propensity to fuse and split like plasmodial organisms, and their life cycle with a digestive cyst stage that digests the gathered food. They appear worldwide in marine, brackish, freshwater and soil habitats. They are important predators of an enormous variety of microscopic organisms, from algae to fungi and animals.[3] They are also known as aconchulinid amoebae (order Aconchulinida).[4]

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