Difflugia

Difflugia
Races of Difflugia. (After Leidy.)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Amoebozoa
Phylum:	Gymnamoeba
Class:	Tubulinea
Order:	Arcellinida
Family:	Difflugiidae
Genus:	Difflugia LeClerc, 1815

Difflugia is one of several genera of amoebozoa that produce shells or tests from granules of sand. These are swallowed by the cell and during the process of budding or fission they pass into the daughter, where they are joined by organic cement. The test has a single terminal opening. Difflugia are particularly common in marshes. The Difflugia use pseudopods to move around. It is a heterotroph and it engulfs its food.

One species is Difflugia corona.^[1] It eats its food by taking its pseudopods and captures the food with them.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Difflugia". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

References

1. ^ Silva-Briano M, Martínez-Hernández SL, Adabache-Ortíz A, Ventura-Juárez J, Salinas E, Quintanar JL (August 2007). "Ultrastructural analysis and identification of membrane proteins in the free-living amoeba Difflugia corona". Biocell 31 (2): 225–8. PMID 17902270. 

External links

• Tree of Life: Difflugia