A Previously Unnamed Amoeba, Mayorella clavella, nov. sp.

Authors

Eugene Cleveland Bovee, California State Polytechnic CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a considerable number of investigators gained fame for their studies of the organisms usually placed in the order Amoebida, class Rhizopodea, subphylum Sarcodina, phylum Protozoa (Jahn, 1949), commonly referred to as the naked amoebas. Because these scientists were working in a relatively untouched field of investigation-which it still remains-their attempts to classify the organisms they saw and depicted resulted in considerable confusion as to which amoebas were really legitimate species, and which were simply varieties of established species. The inevitable "lumper" and "splitter" appeared amongst these men as they applied their taxonomic techniques, and the confusion was extended to the literature.

Publication Date

1951

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

58

Issue

1

First Page

415

Last Page

421

Copyright

©1951 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Bovee, Eugene Cleveland (1951) "A Previously Unnamed Amoeba, Mayorella clavella, nov. sp.," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 58(1), 415-421.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol58/iss1/53