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Pinaciophora

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Pinaciophora
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Pinaciophora

Pinaciophora is an amoeboid genus of Heliozoa of uncertain affinity, previously classified as Rhizaria.[1]

It includes the species Pinaciophora fluviatilis.[2]

It was placed before in Nucleariida.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Yabuki A, Chao EE, Ishida KI, Cavalier-Smith T (2012). "Microheliella maris (Microhelida ord. n.), an Ultrastructurally Highly Distinctive New Axopodial Protist Species and Genus, and the Unity of Phylum Heliozoa". Protist. 163 (3): 356–388. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.10.001. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 22153838.
  2. ^ Croome, R. L.; van den Hoff, J.; Burton, H. R. (1987). "Observations of the heliozoean genera Pinaciophora and Acanthocystis (Heiliozoea, Sarcodina, Protozoa) from Ellis Fjord, Antarctica". Polar Biology. 8: 23–28. doi:10.1007/BF00297160.
  3. ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Chao, Ema E. (2012). "Oxnerella micra sp. n. (Oxnerellidae fam. n.), a Tiny Naked Centrohelid, and the Diversity and Evolution of Heliozoa". Protist. 163 (4): 574–601. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.12.005. PMID 22317961.