Three new species of the amoebozoan genus Vexillifera Schaeffer, 1926

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-63

  Dyková, Iva ^a,b   Kostka, Martin ^a,b   Pecková, Hana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

New species; Phylogeny; Taxonomy; Vexillifera fluvialis; Vexillifera multispinosa; Vexillifera tasmaniana

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); AMOEBOZOA; NEOPARAMOEBA; VEXILLIFERA; VEXILLIFERA ARMATA; VEXILLIFERA EXPECTATA; VEXILLIFERA MINUTISSIMA;

EID: 79957802825     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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