Pseudocucurbitella

Pseudocucurbitella is a genus of freshwater testate amoebae of the order Arcellinida. Its shell is agglutinated, ovoid, with a round crossection and a circular aperture surrounded by 3 to 5 separate lobes forming a short collar.^[2]

Pseudocucurbitella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Tubulinea
Order:	Arcellinida
Genus:	Pseudocucurbitella Bovee 1972[1]
Type species
Pseudocucurbitella papillomata (Gauthier-Lièvre & Thomas) Bovee 1972[1]
Synonyms
Difflugia (Pseudocucurbitella) Gauthier-Lièvre & Thomas 1960[1]

Originally, it was described as a subgenus of Difflugia in 1960, but was elevated to genus level in 1972. The taxonomic position of Pseudocucurbitella among Arcellinida is uncertain^[2] and the genus has been abandoned by recent classifications,^[3] but it was initially assigned to the family Difflugiidae.^[1]