| Pseudocucurbitella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Tubulinea |
| Order: | Arcellinida |
| Genus: | Pseudocucurbitella Bovee 1972 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudocucurbitella papillomata (Gauthier-Lièvre & Thomas) Bovee 1972 | |
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Pseudocucurbitella is a genus of freshwater testate amoebae of the order Arcellinida. Its shell is agglutinated, ovoid, with a round crossection and a circular aperture surrounded by 3 to 5 separate lobes forming a short collar.
Originally, it was described as a subgenus of Difflugia in 1960, but was elevated to genus level in 1972. The taxonomic position of Pseudocucurbitella among Arcellinida is uncertain and the genus has been abandoned by recent classifications, but it was initially assigned to the family Difflugiidae.
References
- ^ Jahn, Theodore L.; Bovee, Eugene C.; Griffith, Donal L. (1974). "Taxonomy and Evolution of the Sarcodina: A Reclassification". Taxon. 23 (4): 483–496. doi:10.2307/1218771. JSTOR 1218771.
- ^ Tsyganov AN, Babeshko KV, Mazei YA (2016), Определитель родов раковинных амеб [A Guide to Testate Amoebae with the Keys to Genera], Пенза Издательство ПГУ, ISBN 978-5-906913-19-7
- González-Miguéns, Rubén; Todorov, Milcho; Blandenier, Quentin; Duckert, Clément; Porfirio-Sousa, Alfredo L.; Ribeiro, Giulia M.; Ramos, Diana; Lahr, Daniel J.G.; Buckley, David; Lara, Enrique (2022). "Deconstructing Difflugia: The tangled evolution of lobose testate amoebae shells (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) illustrates the importance of convergent evolution in protist phylogeny". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 175: 107557. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107557. hdl:10261/281619. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 35777650.
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