Actinophrys

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Actinophrys
Actinophrys undergoing multiple
plasmotomy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Raphidomonadea
Order: Actinophryida
Suborder: Actinophryina
Family: Actinophryidae
Dujardin, 1841
Genus: Actinophrys
Ehrenberg, 1830[1]
Type species
Actinophrys sol
(Müller, 1773) Ehrenberg, 1830[1]
Species
Synonyms
  • Trichoda Müller 1773 nomen oblitum
  • Peritricha Bory de St.Vincent 1824
    Stein 1859

Actinophrys is a

Actinophryidae.[3]

Characteristics

Actinophrys species belong to an

siliceous material present in their cysts.[2]

Systematics

Actinophrys was described in 1830 by German naturalist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, with the type species Actinophrys sol. The species originally belonged to a genus named Trichoda, described earlier by Otto Friedrich Müller and later declared obsolete.[1] In 1824, Bory de St. Vincent transferred that species to a new genus Peritricha but, without any new observations to justify the change, it fell out of use.[2]

Species

There are currently four accepted species of Actinophrys.[2]

  • Actinophrys sol (Müller, 1773) Ehrenberg, 1830[1] (=A. difformis Ehrenberg, 1830; A. marina Dujardin, 1841; A. stella Perty, 1852; A. oculata Stein, 1854; A. tenuipes Claparède & Lachmann, 1858; A. fissipes Lachmann, 1859; A. longipes Lachmann, 1859; A. tunicata Lachmann, 1859; A. limbata Lachmann, 1859; A. paradoxa Carter, 1864; A. picta Leidy, 1879; A. alveolata Schewiakoff, 1893; A. subalpina West, 1901; A. vesiculata Penard, 1901)
  • Actinophrys pontica Valkanov, 1940[5]
  • Actinophrys salsuginosa Patterson, 2001
  • Actinophrys tauryanini (Mikrjukov, 1996) Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.5962/bhl.title.143632
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  2. ^ a b c d Mikrjukov, Kirill A.; Patterson, David J. (2001). "Taxonomy and phylogeny of Heliozoa. III. Actinophryids" (PDF). Acta Protozoologica. 40: 3–25.
  3. ^
    PMID 23219323
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  4. ISBN 978-3-319-32669-6
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  5. ^ Valkanov A (1940). "Die Heliozoen und Proteomyxen. Artbestand und sontige kritische Bemerkung". Archiv für Protistenkunde. 93: 225–254.
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