Phylogenetic reconstruction based on COI reshuffles the taxonomy of hyalosphenid shelled (testate) amoebae and reveals the convoluted evolution of shell plate shapes
Author
Anush Kosakyan
Author
Daniel J. G. Lahr
Author
Matthieu Mulot
Author
Ralf Meisterfeld
Author
Edward A. D. Mitchell
Author
Enrique Lara
text
Cladistics
2016
32
606
623
journal article
10.1111/cla.12167
b1b40acc-a139-4224-b746-a4229d457dbf
238712
Nebela
(Leidy 1874) sensu Kosakyan, Lahr, Mulot, Meisterfeld, Mitchell and Lara
Updated diagnosis.
Test rounded, ovoid-pyriform, or wide-pyriform, rarely with a keel (partial or complete) or other lateral expansions, with or without wavy lateral margins. Pseudostome ranging from linear to strongly curved, bordered by a
±
thin organic lip (rim, collar or fringe). Test hyaline or slightly yellowish, reinforced with circular to elongated shell plates apparently recycled mostly from euglyphid testate amoeba prey, sometimes also including fragments of diatom frustules or other small mineral elements.
Type species.
Nebela collaris (Ehrenberg 1848)
Leidy, 1879
.
Included taxa.
Nebela collaris
,
N. tincta
,
N. guttata
,
N. gimlii
,
N. pechorensis
,
N. aliciae
,
N. flabellulum
and all the closely related species sharing the same characters (i.e.
N. acolla
,
N. carinatella
,
N. dydevallei
,
N. rotunda
and
N. pulchra
).