Macbrideola
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Macbrideola is a genus of Amoebozoa in the family Stemonitidaceae.[1] As of 2015, there are 17 species in the genus.[2]
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Macbrideola | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
Class: | Myxogastria |
Order: | Stemonitidales |
Family: | Stemonitidaceae |
Genus: | Macbrideola H.C.Gilbert, 1934 |
Type species | |
Macbrideola scintillans H.C.Gilbert, 1934 |
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The genus name of Macbrideola is in honour of Thomas Huston Macbride (1848–1934), who was the tenth president of the University of Iowa and was a naturalist and botanist.[3]
The genus was circumscribed by Henry Clark Gilbert in University of Iowa Studies in Natural History vol.16 on page 155 in 1934.