A search that checks against common names and lexical variants.
Example: A search for "Pomatomus saltator" will check presence in the tree of "Pomatomus sallatrix", "Pomatomus saltator", or "Pomatomus saltatrix".
A search that checks against common names and lexical variants and homotypic variants.
Example: A search for "Pomatomus saltator" will check presence in the tree of "Cheilodipterus saltatrix", "Gasterosteus saltatrix", "Pomatomix saltatrix", "Pomatomus sallatrix", "Pomatomus saltator", "Pomatomus saltatrix", or "Temnodon saltator".
Description of Heleopera: Shells of the genus Heleopera are always laterally compressed, aperture terminal lenticular or slit like with thin organic rim, in contrast to Nebela with acute notches at edges. Beside colourless or yellow, several red or purple species are common. Test composed of collected euglyphid body plates, mineral particles or diatoms. These elements are often coated and reinforced with siliceous material. In contrast to Nebela numerous finger like pseudopodia. All species have an ovular nucleus. More than a dozen species, the type species Heleopera sphagni (Leidy, 1874). has zoochlorellae and is abundant in the green horizon of wet sphagnum. Feeding: H. sphagni uses mainly its symbionts, most other species are predators of small euglyphids. Habitats: Lake sediments, mosses and soil.
Heleopera
