centropyxid

English

Noun

centropyxid (plural centropyxids)

1. (zoology) Any amoebozoan in the family Centropyxidae.
   • 2015 August 20, “Thecamoebians (Testate Amoebae) Straddling the Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Guryul Ravine Section, India: Evolutionary and Palaeoecological Implications”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Here, the recovered centropyxids are also phenotypically diverse, with multiple numbers of spines that we divide into morphotypes, or variants, based on the absolute number of spines.