fire amoeba

plural fire amoebas · alternative fire ameba

1. Incendiamoeba cascadensis, an amoeba that can tolerate extremely high temperatures.

   Coupled with the morphological and ecological evidence described below, we propose the amoeba as a new genus, Incendiamoeba (Latin incendarius meaning igniting fire, “fire amoeba”) and species cascadensis, referring to the Cascade mountain range where it was discovered.

   [2026, H. Beryl Rappaport, Natalie A. Petek-Seoane, Tomáš Tyml, Jessica K. Niblo, Felix Mikus, Naomi E. Gilbert, Kurt LaButti, et alia, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes”, in Cell, →DOI, page 3

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   Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport were part of a team that discovered the organism at Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California’s Cascade mountain range. They named it Incendiamoeba cascadensis, which translates to ‘fire amoeba from the cascades’.

   [2025 December 2, Ewen Callaway, “‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell”, in Nature, →DOI