Cryptodifflugia patinata Schonborn, 1965

Bobrov, Anatoly & Mazei, Yuri, 2017, A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 (Phryganellina: Cryptodifflugiidae) with a key to species, Zootaxa 4282 (2), pp. 292-308 : 302

C. patinata ( Schönborn, 1965) comb. nov.

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Difflugiella patinata Schönborn, 1965

Original description. Schönborn 1965, P. 322–323, Fig. 5 .

Description. Shell bowl-shaped, with width exceeding length, transparent. Shell surface slightly corrugated,

with isolated xenosomes. Color yellowish-brown to brown. The aperture is circular. Measurements. Shell length 8.5–12.9 µm, shell width 11.5–14.0 µm, aperture diameter 7.0–11.0 µm. Habitat. On Typha and Phragmites australis in lakes and bogs, in lake sediments. Geographical distribution. Germany, Poland.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Different species of the genus Cryptodifflugia: a – d— C. lanceolata, broad side lateral view (a), narrow side lateral view (b), apertural view (c), d— C. leachi, lateral view of living cell, e – f— C. minuta, lateral view, g – k C. oviformis, lateral view of encysted specimen (g), lateral view (i), apertural view (h, j), lateral view of encysted specimen (k). a – c—after Golemansky 1970, d—after Nicholls 2006, e – f—after Palyfair 1917, g – h—after Page 1966, i – k—after Penard 1890. Scale bar 20 µm.

FIGURE 6. Different species of the genus Cryptodifflugia: a – b— C. oviformis fusca, lateral view of different specimens, c – e— C. paludosa, narrow side lateral view (c), apertural view (d), broad side lateral view (e), f – g— C. patinata, lateral view (f), apertural view (g), h— C. psammophila, lateral view, i— C. pusilla, lateral view, j— C. pusilla conica, lateral view. a, b—after Penard 1890, c – e—after Golemansky 1981, f – g—after Schönborn 1965, h—after Golemansky 1970, i, j—after Playfair 1917. Scale bar 20 µm.