What is the scientific name of an amoeba?

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What is the scientific name of an amoeba?
The scientific name of an amoeba depends on the species!





"Amoeba" is actually a "genus" name... all organisms (exculding viruses, which aren't really living) are typically classified by a genus and species names.... some organisms get two species names or a strain name as well (typically bacteria have strain names) - humans are actually "Homo sapiens sapiens", so we have two species names!.





Now the tricky part.





Sometimes the term "amoeba" is used more generally, to describe "amoeboids", amoeba like organisms that are in the same family (Amoebidae) or even sometimes just to the phylum "amoebozoa".





IDepends really on if you want to be an anal retentive taxonomist how you approach the matter.





At the bottom is a few links to various sites that you might find useful. I got my answers from a bunch of my general biology and microbiology textbooks, as well as several years of accumulated university education... but like any good scientist you have to include some references. A good general one is "Campbell %26amp; Reece (2001). Biology (6th ed). Benjamin Cummings, California".... any edition will dthough, and there's probably one in your local library, high school library, and almost certainly one in your college library!





Amoeba can be free living or parasitic.. some can cause very nasty diseases!
Reply:Amoeba is a unicellular organism that moves using psedopodia and belongs to the genus protoza.





I have looked this up the web and apparently there is a family for amoeba called Amoebozoa.





Amoeba





Scientific classification





Domain: Eukaryota


Phylum: Amoebozoa


Class: Tubulinea


Order: Tubulinida


Family: Amoebidae


Genus: Amoeba