Pinaciophora

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Pinaciophora
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Pinaciophora

Greeff, 1873

Pinaciophora is an amoeboid genus of uncertain affinity, previously classified as Rhizaria or the now-discredited Heliozoa. [1] It has also been placed in Nucleariida, [2] which remains a possibility based on morphology. There is no molecular data available for a definite placement as of 2019. [3]

It includes the species Pinaciophora fluviatilis. [4]

References

  1. Yabuki A, Chao EE, Ishida KI, Cavalier-Smith T (2012). "Microheliella maris (Microhelida ord. n.), an Ultrastructurally Highly Distinctive New Axopodial Protist Species and Genus, and the Unity of Phylum Heliozoa". Protist. 163 (3): 356–388. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.10.001. ISSN   1434-4610. PMID   22153838.
  2. Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Chao, Ema E. (2012). "Oxnerella micra sp. n. (Oxnerellidae fam. n.), a Tiny Naked Centrohelid, and the Diversity and Evolution of Heliozoa". Protist. 163 (4): 574–601. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.12.005. PMID   22317961.
  3. Galindo, Luis Javier; Torruella, Guifré; Moreira, David; Eglit, Yana; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Völcker, Eckhard; Clauẞ, Steffen; López-García, Purificación (7 October 2019). "Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences. 374 (1786) 20190094. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0094. PMC   6792443 . PMID   31587649.
  4. Croome, R. L.; van den Hoff, J.; Burton, H. R. (1987). "Observations of the heliozoean genera Pinaciophora and Acanthocystis (Heiliozoea, Sarcodina, Protozoa) from Ellis Fjord, Antarctica". Polar Biology. 8: 23–28. doi:10.1007/BF00297160.