Protistology • 15 (4): 312–320 (2021) |
Description of Leptomyxa silvatica n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Tubulinea, Leptomyxida), a new soil amoeba species from Chernevaya taiga soil of West Siberia, Russia |
Anna A. Glotova1, Sergey V. Loiko2, Georgy I. Istigichev2, Anastasia I. Kulemzina3, Evgeny V. Abakumov4, Alla L. Lapidus 5,6 and Alexey V. Smirnov7
1 Laboratory of Cytology of Unicellular Organisms, Institute of Cytology RAS, 194064 St. Petersburg, Russia
| Submitted October 10, 2021 | Accepted November 12, 2021 | Summary During the studies of amoebae from the rare and highly productive soil of Chernevaya taiga (South Siberia, Russia) we have found an isolate of a leptomyxid amoeba showing 18s rDNA sequence significantly different from those of other known species of the order Leptomyxida. Here we describe this isolate as a new species, Leptomyxa silvatica n. sp. This species has both morphological and sequence differences from related ones. This finding confirms that reliable morphological differentiation and identification of leptomyxid amoebae is possible only for several remarkable species, while others require molecular data to be correctly labeled or described.
Key words: amoebae, Leptomyxa, morphology, phylogeny, Tubulinea
Address for correspondence: Anna Glotova. Institute of Cytology RAS, Tikhoretsky Ave. 4, 194064 St. Petersburg, Russia e-mail: glotova.anna@gmail.com |
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