Centropyxis kurakchayensis Snegovaya et Alekperov, 2005

Bindu, L., 2023, Diversity of testate amoebae (Amoebozoa and Cercozoa) in Western Ghats of Kerala with 8 new records to India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (2), pp. 117-134 : 121

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2/2023/172617

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scientific name

Centropyxis kurakchayensis Snegovaya et Alekperov, 2005
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19. Centropyxis kurakchayensis Snegovaya et Alekperov, 2005 [Plate-1 (D)]

2005. Centropyxis kurakchayensis Snegovaya et Alekperov, Protistology , 4 (2): 149-183.

Material examined: Mi-618, 2exs., 8.xi.2017, Tree moss, Anamudi Shola; Mi-565, 2exs., Tree moss, 31.x.2017, Malabar WLS.

Diagnosis: The shell is large, elliptical in plan, and strongly flattened in profile, the ventral surface is conclave, the aperture is very large, practically central, and oval in shape, the lateral edges of the aperture form bridges reaching the dorsal part of the shell; the shell is without spines; shell length 160 to 190 µm, width 90-110µm, shell height 42-48µm.

Distribution: India: Present record. Elsewhere: Cosmopolitan.

Remarks: New record from India.

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Amoebozoa

Class

Lobosa

Order

Arcellinida

Family

Centropyxidae

Genus

Centropyxis

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