TY - JOUR
TI - A New Species of Flamella (Amoebozoa, Variosea, Gracilipodida) Isolated from a Freshwater Pool in Southern Mississippi, USA
	 
AU - Walthall, Austin C.
AU - Tice, Alexander K.
AU - Brown, Matthew W.
TI - A New Species of Flamella (Amoebozoa, Variosea, Gracilipodida) Isolated from a Freshwater Pool in Southern Mississippi, USA
	 
AB - We isolated and identified a freshwater amoebozoan species that belongs to the genus Flamella Schaeffer, 1926 by single cell isolation and light microscopy. Our specific strain was isolated from a water sample obtained on the cover of a swimming pool in Petal, Mississippi, USA collected during the winter of 2015. Morphologically, our isolate is a fan-shaped amoeba with a large, frontal hyaloplasm and distinctive granuloplasm. It is capable of encystment and trophozoites occasionally have two nuclei. The isolate (GFP151sc) is phylogenetically sister to but unique from the freshwater environmental flamellid clone from Borok, Yaroslavl region, Russia originally published in 2006. Here we describe and place this isolate into a new species, Flamella piscinae n. sp.
VL - 2016
IS - Volume 55, Issue 2
PY - 2016
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 111
EP - 117
DO - 10.4467/16890027AP.16.010.4945
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/a-new-species-of-flamella-amoebozoa-variosea-gracilipodida-isolated-from-a-freshwater-pool-in-southern-mississippi-usa
KW - Amoeboid
KW - amoeba
KW - SSU rDNA
KW - taxonomy
KW - protist
KW - phylogenetics
KW - Flamella
KW - Gracilipoida