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Taxon: Genus Acanthamoeba Volkonsky, 1931 (protozoan)
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Concise hierarchy

(Domain) Eukaryota - (Phylum) Amoebozoa - (Class) Discosea - (Order) Centramoebida - (Family) Acanthamoebidae

Subsequent positions

Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975

Original entries

Acanthamoeba tubiashi Lewis & Sawyer, 1979

Current position

Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: A.V. Smirnov et al., 2011: table 1 (p. 562).

Alternative positions

Centramoebida ([unranked]) Rogerson & Patterson, 2002 Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: table 2 (p. 435). [rough position]
Lobosa (Subphylum) Carpenter, 1861 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 232. [rough position]

Historical positions

Centramoebia (Subclass) Cavalier-Smith, Chao & Lewis, 2016 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): table 1 (p. 521). [rough position]
Centramoebida ([unranked]) Rogerson & Patterson, 2002 Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: table 2 (p. 435). [rough position]
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: A. Smirnov, 2012: table 2 (p. 197).
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: A.V. Smirnov et al., 2011: table 1 (p. 562).
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2005: 403.
Acanthopodida (Order) Page, 1976 Ref: A. Smirnov et al., 2005: 138. [rough position]
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2004: 43.
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: A.V. Smirnov & S. Brown, 2004: 150, 183, fig. 31c.
Lobosa (Subphylum) Carpenter, 1861 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002b: 323.
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: A. Rogerson & D.J. Patterson, 2000[2002]: 1042-1043.
Lobosa (Subphylum) Carpenter, 1861 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: table 3 (p. 232). [rough position]
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998: 124, 125.
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: F.L. Schuster, 1990: table 1 (p. 11).
Acanthamoebidae (Family) Sawyer & Griffin, 1975 Ref: F.C. Page, 1982: 513, pl.41.
Acanthopodina (Class) Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 76. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 22s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [22s]
2012 A. Smirnov: table 3 (p. 206, 207: note d) [22?s]
2000-2003 A. Smirnov: 25 Aug 2006 [22s]
2000[2002] A. Rogerson & D.J. Patterson [>]18s
1982 F.C. Page [22s]
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