Acinetactis is a possible genus of protist first described in 1886 by A.C. Stokes, who also described the type species A. mirabilis.[1] In 1928, Valkanov reported the discovery of a second species, A. arnaudovii.[2] The most recently recorded specimen of A. mirabilis was reported in 1940, no Acinetactis specimens have been reported since.[3]
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| Acinetactis mirabilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Cercozoa |
| Class: | Sarcomonadea |
| Order: | Glissomonadida |
| Family: | Acinetactidae |
| Genus: | Acinetactis A.C. Stokes |
The validity and classification of this genus is contested. In 1914, Adolf Pascher cast doubt on Acinetactis, suggesting that it was a junior synonym of Dimorpha mutans.[4] Cavalier-Smith classified Acinetactis as a heliomonad in 1993.[5] Bass et al. suggested in 2009 that the genus was a cercozoan in the class Granofilosea.[6]
References
edit- ^ Stokes (1886), "Notices of new fresh-water infusoria", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 23: 562–568
- ^ Valkanov (1928), "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Flagellaten von Bulgarien", Izvestiya Na Bulgarskoto Botanichesko Druzhestvo, 1: 105–120
- ^ Lackey (1940), "The Microscopic Flora and Fauna of Tree Holes", Ohio Journal of Science, 40 (4): 186–192
- ^ Pascher (1914), Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, vol. 1, p. 51
- ^ Cavalier-Smith, T (1993). "Kingdom protozoa and its 18 phyla". Microbiological Reviews. 57 (4): 953–94. doi:10.1128/mmbr.57.4.953-994.1993. PMC 372943. PMID 8302218.
- ^ Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, et al. (February 2009). "Phylogeny of Novel Naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea Revised". Protist. 160 (1): 75–109. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.07.002. PMID 18952499.