testacea

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Testacea may refer to:

• a former order of rhizopods, which consisted of testate amoeboid organisms.{{Cite journal| first = O. W. | title = The Abundance and Micro-Distribution of Testate Amoebae (Rhizopoda:Testacea) in Sphagnum | journal = Oikos | volume = 13| issue = 1| last = Heal | pages = 35–65| date = 1 January 1962 | issn = 0030-1299 | doi = 10.2307/3565062| jstor = 3565062}}
• a former group of shelled molluscs and other invertebrates, created by Linnaeus and roughly corresponding to the colloquial term seashell (see Vermes).
• a species group of Drosophila in the Drosophila subgenus.Grimaldi, D., James, A.C., Jaenike, J. 1992. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/85.6.671 "Systematics and Modes of Reproductive Isolation in the Holarctic Drosophila testacea Species Group (Diptera: Drosophilidae)."] Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., 85(6):http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/6/671