Cochliopodium

Cochliopodium
Amoeba of the genus Cochliopodium. Phase contrast microscopy. In the center, three digestive vacuoles with algae are visible, and a dark cell nucleus is located just below. The cytoplasm contains a lot of light contractile vacuoles, you can notice yellowish crystals.
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Cochliopodium

Hertwig & Lesser 1874
Type species
Cochliopodium pellucidum
Hertwig & Lesser 1874

Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.

It has been found in eyewash stations.

It includes:

  • C. actinophorum (Auerbach 1856) Page 1976
  •  ?C. ambiguum Penard 1904
  • C. arabianum Tekle, Gorfu & Anderson 2015
  • C. barki Kudryavtsev, Brown et Smirnov 2004
  • C. bilimbosum (Auerbach 1856) Leidy 1879
  • C. clarum Schaeffer 1926
  •  ?C. crassiusculum Penard 1905
  •  ?C. erinaceum Penard 1902
  • C. gallicum Kudryavtsev & Smirnov 2006
  • C. granulatum Penard 1890
  • C. gulosum Schaeffer 1926
  • C. kieliense Kudryavtsev 2006
  • C. larifeili Kudriavtsev 1999
  • C. maeoticum Kudryavtsev 2006
  • C. megatetrastylus Anderson & Tekle 2013
  • C. minus Page 1976
  • C. minutoidum Kudryavtsev 2006
  •  ?C. minutum West 1901
  •  ?C. muscorum Wang 1977
  •  ?C. obscurum Pen.
  •  ?C. papyrum Bovee 1958
  • C. pentatrifurcatum Tekle et al. 2013
  • C. plurinucleolum Geisen et al. 2014
  •  ?C. radiosum Biernacka 1963
  •  ?C. silvaticum Varga 1935
  • C. spiniferum Kudryavtsev 2004
  •  ?C. spumosum Penard 1904
  • C. vestitum (Archer 1871) Archer 1877
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