A new species of Arcella
A shelled amoeba I discovered nearly eleven years ago finally has a name! Meet Arcella prismatica Taylor, Strueder-Kypke & Siemensma, 2025. So far, this pretty morphotype has only been found at two sites, a brown-water lake in Ottawa’s Mer Bleue Bog, and a roadside mire in the Cree Nation of Chisasibi, on the Quebec coast…