Kibisidytes Jepps 1934

Small marine amoeba housed in an organic shell that may become brown, and usually with one opening giving rise to delicate branched and granulate pseudopodia. Divides within the shell. The original description is poor and it is hard to distinguish between this and Heterogromia or Microcometes (the flagella of which are very hard to see). Type species: K. marinus.

Test small, ovoid to pyriform, 10µIT} to 14 µmin length; wall proteinaceous, brown, commonly with ferruginous surface encrustation; aperture single, rounded; opaque cytoplasm only partially filling the test, uninucleate, no contractile vacuole; pseudopodia short, delicate, granular and may branch; asexual reproduction by binary fission. Marine, in surface film of water, or attached to floating objects. Holocene; Europe. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)