Cryptodifflugia brevicolla, Golemansky, 1979

Bobrov, Anatoly & Mazei, Yuri, 2017, A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 (Phryganellina: Cryptodifflugiidae) with a key to species, Zootaxa 4282 (2), pp. 292-308 : 295

C. brevicolla Golemansky, 1979

Figs 2 a, 2b, 2c

Original description. Golemansky 1979, P. 287–2888, Fig. 3 .

Description. Shell ovate, laterally compressed, with clearly expressed chitinous collar around an aperture, neck circular in transverse section, fundus elliptical in transverse section, colorless and transparent. Aperture circular surrounded by small transparent chitinous collar.

Measurements. Shell height 14–18 µm, shell width 12–15 µm, shell depth 5–11 µm, aperture diameter 4–7 µm.

Habitat. Marine sandy beach, psammal supralittoral.

Geographical distribution. Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Different species of the genus Cryptodifflugia: a – c— C. brevicolla, broad side lateral view (a), narrow side lateral view (b), living specimen with cytoplasm (c), d – e— C. collum, apertural view (d), lateral view of living specimen with cytoplasm (e). a – c—after Golemansky 1979, b – d—after Chardez 1971. Scale bar 20 µm.

FIGURE 3. Different species of the genus Cryptodifflugia: a – f— C. compressa, broad side lateral view (a, d), narrow side lateral view (b, e), apertural view (c, f), g – h— C. compressa angustioris, narrow side lateral view (g), broad side lateral view (h), i – k— C. compressa australis, broad side lateral view (i), narrow side lateral view (j), apertural view (k), l— C. compressa ovata, lateral view. a – f—after Penard 1902, g – h—after Tarnogradsky 1959, i – l—after Palyfair 1917. Scale bar 20 µm.