Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1838)

Bindu, L., 2021, Studies on the free-living protozoan fauna of estuaries in the coastal zone of Tamil Nadu, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1), pp. 61-75 : 64

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/141506

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Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1838)
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10. Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1838)

Material examined: Mi-112, 2 ex., Coleron estuary,

02.vii.2012; Mi-125, 7ex., Kaliveli estuary, 05.vii.2012; Mi-130, 6 ex., Kaliveli estuary, 06.i.2013; Mi-142, 6 ex., Vellar estuary, 08.i.2013; Mi-147, 6 ex., Vellar estuary,

20.vi.2013; Mi-152, 4ex., Karaikkal estuary, 19.vi.2013; Mi-163, 4 ex., Coleron estuary, 21.vi.2013; Mi-244, 3 ex., Vellar estuary, 20.vii.2014.

Diagnosis: Test brown in colour, slightly compressed and encrusted with quartz crystals; fundus rounded and furnished with a few spines arranged in a single row; aperture semi-circular and eccentric; shell 97-158 µm in diameter.

Distribution in India: Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala (Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve), Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal.

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Amoebozoa

Class

Lobosa

Order

Arcellinida

Family

Centropyxidae

Genus

Centropyxis

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