Thecamoeba

Not to be confused with thecamoebians.

Thecamoeba
Thecamoeba striata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Discosea
Order:	Thecamoebida
Family:	Thecamoebidae
Genus:	Thecamoeba de Fromental 1874
Synonyms
StriamoebaJahn, Bovee & Griffith 1974 ThorntoniusSingh, Misra & Sharma 1982

Thecamoebais a genus of Amoebozoa with a tough pellicle simulating a shell.

It includes the species:

• T. aesculea Kudryavtsev & Hausmann 2009
• T. assimilis Lepşi 1960
• ?T. bilizi (Schaeffer 1926)
• ?T. circita Dumas 1929
• ?T. corrugata Bovee 1953
• T. cosmophorea Mesentsev & Smirnov 2019
• ?T. exapartirta Escomel 1929
• T. hilla Schaeffer 1926 ^[1]
• T. hoffmani Sawyer, Hnath & Conrad 1974
• T. homeri Henderson & Brown 2024 ^[2]
• T. munda Schaeffer 1926
• T. orbis Schaeffer 1926
• ?T. ovalis Lepşi 1960
• ?T. papyracea (Penard 1905)
• T. pulchra (Biernacka 1963) Page 1977
• T. quadrilineata (Carter 1856) Lepşi 1960
• ?T. quinquepartita Dumas 1929
• ?T. rugosa Schaeffer 1926
• T. similis (Greeff 1891) Lepşi 1960
• T. sparolata (Fishbeck & Bovee 1993)
• T. sphaeronucleolus (Greeff 1891) Schaeffer 1926
• T. striata (Penard 1890) Schaeffer 1926
• T. terricola (Greeff 1866) Lepşi 1960
• T. verrucosa (Ehrenberg 1838) Schaeffer 1926
• T. vicaria F. J. Page and A. W. D. Larkum 2023

References

1. Dyková, I.; Fiala, I.; Dvoráková, H.; Pecková, H. (2008). "Living together: the marine amoeba Thecamoeba hilla Schaeffer, 1926 and its endosymbiont Labyrinthula sp". European Journal of Protistology. 44 (4): 308–316. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2008.04.001. PMID   18619822.
2. "Thecamoeba homeri". www.ccap.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-06-06.