Cryptodifflugia leachi
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| Cryptodifflugia leachi | |
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| A free-living Cryptodifflugia leachi cell housed in its rigid shell, extending its rhizopods through the pseudostomal aperture. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Amorphea |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Tubulinea |
| Order: | Arcellinida |
| Family: | Cryptodifflugiidae |
| Genus: | Cryptodifflugia |
| Species: | C. leachi |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptodifflugia leachi Nicholls, 2006[1] | |
Cryptodifflugia leachi is an aquatic species of testate amoebae discovered in 2006 in Canada, living in bottom sediment from wetlands at the base of the Niagara Escarpment.[2]
