IRMNG - Amoeba Bory de St. Vincent, 1822

IRMNG name details

Amoeba Bory de St. Vincent, 1822

IRMNG_ID

1284299 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1284299)

Classification

Status

uncertain > nomen dubium

Rank

Genus

Parent

Amoebidae Ehrenberg, 1838, stat. nov. Page, 1987

Synonymised names

Metamoeba Friz, 1992 · unaccepted

Proteus Müller, 1786 · unaccepted

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Species Amoeba chaetognathi Grassi
Species Amoeba chlorochlamys R. Lauterborn
Species Amoeba discoides Sch.
Species Amoeba dubia Sch.
Species Amoeba gorgonia Penard, 1902
Species Amoeba guttula Duj.
Species Amoeba limicola Rhumb.
Species Amoeba pigmentifera Grassi
Species Amoeba proteus (Pal.)
Species Amoeba punctata P.-A. Dangeard
Species Amoeba radiosa Ehr.
Species Amoeba rotatoria A.F. Mayer
Species Amoeba spumosa Grub.
Species Amoeba striata Pen.
Species Amoeba verrocosa
Species Amoeba vespertilio Pen.
Species Amoeba flavescens Gruber, 1889 accepted as Gruberella flavescens (Gruber, 1889) Page, 1984
Species Amoeba pulchra Biernacka, 1963 accepted as Thecamoeba pulchra Page, 1977

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2026). Amoeba Bory de St. Vincent, 1822. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1284299 on 2026-08-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

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Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 09:43:47Z

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basis of record SN2000/T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2004 [details]

current name source CoL 2006 [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source SN2000/T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2004 [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Proteus Müller, 1786) Müller, O.F. (1786). Animalcula infusoria fluviatilia et marina quæ detexit, systematice descripsit et ad vivum delineari curavit Otho Fridericus Müller; sistet opus hoc posthumum, quod cum tabulis Aeneis L. in lucem tradit vidua ejus nobilissima cura Othonis Fabricii. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]: Typis N. Mölleri. 367 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50327
page(s): 9 [details]

original description (of Metamoeba Friz, 1992) Arch Protistenkd 142 (1-2)
page(s): 35 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006) [details]

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