Abstract
The application to conserve the specific name Phreatamoeba balamuthi Chavez, Balamuth & Gong, 1986 (currently Mastigamoeba balamuthi) for a free-living, polymorphic pelobiont, by suppression of its senior subjective synonym Mastigamoeba longifilum Stokes, 1886 will not establish the stability being sought. The references cited in the application point to an unpublished review by Walker and Patterson. Because of the poor taxonomic standards of most descriptions in this genus and the absence of type material, this review concludes that the following taxa are subjective
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