Meisterfeldia
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| Meisterfeldia | |
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| Meisterfeldia turfacea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Amorphea |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Tubulinea |
| Order: | Arcellinida |
| Family: | Cryptodifflugiidae |
| Genus: | Meisterfeldia Bobrov 2016[1] |
| Type species | |
| Meisterfeldia chibisovi Bobrov 2016 | |
| Species[1][2] | |
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Meisterfeldia is a genus of arcellinid testate amoebae erected in 2016 that unites several new species as well as old species previously found in the genus Cryptodifflugia.[1][3] Five of the newly described species were first found and isolated from subarctic tundra soil surrounding a river near Chokurdakh, Russia,[1] while the last one, described in 2021, was recovered from tree hollows in Moscow.[2]
