Cryptodifflugia minuta Playfair 1917, comb. nov.

• Main Authors: Bobrov, Anatoly, Mazei, Yuri
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Protozoa; Amoebozoa; Lobosa; Arcellinida; Cryptodifflugiidae; Cryptodifflugia; Cryptodifflugia minuta; Greenland; Possession Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6038348; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C15DE32E346E5E100CF413E7FB1CFB1F

C. minuta (Playfair, 1917) comb. nov. Figs 5 e, 5f Difflugiella minuta Grospietsch, 1964 Original description. Playfair 1917, P. 656, Table 138, Fig. 12. Description. Shell small, ovate, circular in transverse section, rounded aborally, and with sides converging to a very narrow apertural part, aperture very narrow, often just a pore, with thickened rim, or sometimes with a very narrow but distinct collar, shell surface smooth. Measurements. Shell length 10–13 µm, shell width 8–9 µm, aperture diameter 2–3 µm. Habitat. Freshwater, bogs. Geographical distribution. Australia, Russia, Crozet and Possession Island, Greenland, USA. Published as part of Bobrov, Anatoly & Mazei, Yuri, 2017, A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 (Phryganellina: Cryptodifflugiidae) with a key to species, pp. 292-308 in Zootaxa 4282 (2) on page 301, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/818668