IRMNG - Acanthamoeba Volkonsky, 1931

IRMNG taxon details

Acanthamoeba Volkonsky, 1931

IRMNG_ID

1096208 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1096208)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Acanthamoebidae Sawyer & Griffin, 1975

Synonymised names

Comandonia Pernin & Pussard, 1979 · unaccepted

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Species Acanthamoeba astronyxis (Ray & Hayes, 1954)
Species Acanthamoeba castellanii (Douglas, 1930)
Species Acanthamoeba comandoni Pussard, 1964
Species Acanthamoeba culbertsoni (Singh & Das, 1970)
Species Acanthamoeba gigantea Schmoller, 1964
Species Acanthamoeba griffini Sawyer, 1971
Species Acanthamoeba hatchetti Sawyer, Visvesvara & Harke, 1977
Species Acanthamoeba hyalina (Dobell & O'Connor, 1921)
Species Acanthamoeba lenticulata Molet & Ermolieff-Braun, 1976
Species Acanthamoeba palestinensis (Reich, 1933)
Species Acanthamoeba polyphaga (Puschkarew, 1913)
Species Acanthamoeba rhysodes (Singh, 1953)
Species Acanthamoeba royreba Willaert, Stevens & Tyndall, 1978
Species Acanthamoeba stevensoni Sawyer, Nerad, Lewis & McLaughlin, 1993
Species Acanthamoeba terricola Pussard, 1964
Species Acanthamoeba tubiashi Lewis & Sawyer, 1979

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Arch. Zool. exp. gén. Paris, 72
page(s): 317 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Acanthamoeba Volkonsky, 1931. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1096208 on 2025-03-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-13 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2017-03-01 05:21:37Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (8)
Links (3)

original description Arch. Zool. exp. gén. Paris, 72
page(s): 317 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source as per family [details]

habitat flag source web search (AJR) [details]

original description (of Comandonia Pernin & Pussard, 1979) Protistologica 15 (1)
page(s): 88 [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Comandonia Pernin & Pussard, 1979)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Comandonia Pernin & Pussard, 1979)
To WoRMS