Global InformationCryptodifflugia leachi information
| 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 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Tubulinea |
| Order: | Arcellinida |
| Family: | Cryptodifflugiidae |
| Genus: | Cryptodifflugia |
| Species: | C. leachi
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptodifflugia leachi Nicholls, 2006[1]
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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]
- ^ Bobrov, Anatoly; Mazei, Yuri (2017). "A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 (Phryganellina: Cryptodifflugiidae) with a key to species". Zootaxa. 4282 (2): 292–308. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.4.
- ^ Nicholls, Kenneth H. (2006). "Cryptodifflugia leachi n. sp., a Minute New Testate Rhizopod Species (Rhizopoda: Phryganellina)". Acta Protozoologica. 45 (3): 295–299.