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Cochliopodium

Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Amoebozoa
Order:	Himatismenida
Family:	Cochliopodiidae
Genus:	Cochliopodium

Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.^[1]

It has been found in eyewash stations.^[2]

It includes:

Cochliopodium bilimbosum^[3]^[4]
Cochliopodium minus^[5]
Cochliopodium gallicum^[6]

References

^ Kudryavtsev A (July 2006). ""Minute" species of Cochliopodium (Himatismenida): Description of three new fresh- and brackish-water species with a new diagnosis for Cochliopodium minus Page, 1976". Eur. J. Protistol. 42 (2): 77–89. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2005.12.002. PMID 17070753. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0932-4739(06)00002-2.
^ Paszko-Kolva C, Yamamoto H, Shahamat M, Sawyer TK, Morris G, Colwell RR (January 1991). "Isolation of amoebae and Pseudomonas and Legionella spp. from eyewash stations". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57 (1): 163–7. PMID 2036003. PMC: 182678. http://aem.asm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=2036003.
^ Srikanth S, Berk SG (October 1993). "Stimulatory effect of cooling tower biocides on amoebae". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59 (10): 3245–9. PMID 8250551. PMC: 182444. http://aem.asm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8250551.
^ Hülsmann N, Galil BS (November 2001). "The effects of freshwater flushing on marine heterotrophic protists--implications for ballast water management". Mar. Pollut. Bull. 42 (11): 1082–6. PMID 11763219. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025-326X(01)00087-X.
^ Dyková I, Lom J, Machácková B (November 1998). "Cochliopodium minus, a scale-bearing amoeba isolated from organs of perch Perca fluviatilis". Dis. Aquat. Org. 34 (3): 205–10. PMID 9925426.
^ Kudryavtsev A, Smirnov A (March 2006). "Cochliopodium gallicum n. sp. (Himatismenida), an amoeba bearing unique scales, from cyanobacterial mats in the Camargue (France)". Eur. J. Protistol. 42 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2005.08.001. PMID 17070746. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0932-4739(05)00047-7.

External links

"Genus Cochliopodium". UniProt. http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/313557. Retrieved 2009-06-18. (taxonomy information)

Dactylopodida	Paramoebidae (Paramoeba, Korotnevella, Mayorella) · Vexilliferidae (Neoparamoeba, Vexillifera)

Vannellida	Vannellidae (Clydonella, Discamoeba, Lingulamoeba, Platyamoeba, Unda, Vannella)

Himatismenida

Cochliopodiidae (Cochliopodium)

Thecamoebidae

discosean:Dermamoeba
other: Sappinia, Thecamoeba

Tubulinea

Arcellinida	Arcellina (Arcella) · Difflugina (Centropyxis, Heleopera, Apodera, Difflugia)

Euamoebida	Echinamoebidae (Echinamoeba, Filamoeba, Gephyramoeba, Hartmannella vermiformis) Leptomyxida (Leptomyxa, Rhizamoeba, Flabellula, Paraflabellula) Copromyxidae (Copromyxa, Copromyxella) Tubulinida: Amoebidae (Amoeba, Chaos, Hydramoeba, Metachaos, Polychaos, Trichamoeba) · Hartmannellidae (Glaeseria, true Hartmannella, Nolandella, Saccamoeba)

Centramoebida

Acanthamoebidae (Acanthamoeba, Comandonia, Protacanthamoeba) · Balamuthiidae (Balamuthia)

Conosa

Archamoebae

Mastigamoebida: Mastigamoeba · Mastigella · Phreatamoeba · non-ciliate (Endolimax, Endamoeba)
Pelobiontida: Pelomyxidae (Pelomyxa) · Entamoebidae/non-cilitate (Entamoeba) · Mastigina

Mycetozoa

Macromycetozoa	Dictyostelid: Dictyostelium · Polysphondylium · Acytostelium Myxogastria: Liceales (Cribraria, Lycogala, Tubifera, Tubulifera) · Myxogastromycetidae (Echinostelium, Didymium, Fuligo, Lepidoderma, Physarum) · Stemonitida (Comatricha, Stemonitis) · Trichiida (Arcyria, Trichia) other: Ceratiomyxa

Protosteliales	Planoprotostelium · Protostelium

Other

Phalansterium · Multicilia

Breviatea

Breviata

Other/ungrouped

Stereomyxa · Trichosphaerium

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