Estado de conocimiento de los tecamebianos dulceacuicolas de Chile

Abstract

The Thecamoebians is a protozoa group that live mainly in aquatic communities and environments with sufficient moisture (soils, peat bogs, etc.); since they take an active part as primary destructors of cellulose and lignin and they also participate actively in diverse biological processes that happen in the water ecosystems. The knowledge of the Thecamoebians in Chile stays in a very incipient state creating the necessity to count with more specialist, since this group is acquiring more and more importance for its use in understanding paleolimnological problems, as bio-indicators of polluted lacustrine environments, as pedological indicators, etc.