naked amoebae
gymnamoebae latin

Paramoeba is a genus of small, naked amoebae with lobose (more or less fingerlike) pseudopodia.

"High numbers of naked amoebae in the planktonic waters of a mangrove stand in Southern Florida."

The Amoebidae are a family of Amoebozoa, including naked amoebae that produce multiple pseudopodia of indeterminate length.

Ekelund, F., and Ronn, R. (1994) Notes on protozoa in agricultural soil and emphasis on heterotrophic flagellates and naked amoebae and their ecology.

It does appear that naked amoebae ("gymnamoebae") with lobose pseudopodia, tubular mitochondrial cristae, mesomitotic nuclear division, and no flagellate stages in the life history, form a "natural group" (a "clade").

It has also been classified under gymnamoebae.

Nearly all gymnamoebae express such floating forms.

Interactive atlas of Gymnamoebae (Saint Petersburg State University)

Experience of recent 30 years indicates that pure LM systematics of gymnamoebae may work at higher levels of identification only, but is not reliable for species distinction.

It does appear that naked amoebae ("gymnamoebae") with lobose pseudopodia, tubular mitochondrial cristae, mesomitotic nuclear division, and no flagellate stages in the life history, form a "natural group" (a "clade").

As with other "naked" amoebae ("gymnamoebae"; those amoebae that do not live within an obvious shell, or "test"), species-specific morphology only appears when the cell is attached to a substrate and is moving (the "locomotory" form of the amoeba).