Cryptodifflugia pusilla, Playfair, 1917

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 : 302-303

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scientific name	Cryptodifflugia pusilla
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C. pusilla Playfair, 1917

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Difflugiella pusilla Grospietch, 1964

Original description. Playfair 1917, P. 658, Table 38, Fig. 20.

Description. Shell small, subsquare (length equal to width), lateral sides almost vertical and parallel, base of fundus rounded. Shell smooth, firm, chitinoid, structureless, without xenosoms. Aperture circular, its diameter being almost equal to maximum shell width.

Measurements. Shell length 10–22 µm, shell width 10–20 µm, aperture diameter—6–7 µm. Habitat. Water vegetation, wet mosses on rocks.

Geographical distribution. Cosmopolitan.

References

Grospietsch, Th. (1964) Die Gattungen Cryptodifflugia und Difflugiella (Rhizopoden Testacea). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 172, 243 - 257.

Playfair, G. I. (1917) Rhizopods of Sydney and Lismore. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 42, 633 - 675. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 4865