where did the amoeba's name come from
Amoeba In 1822, the genus Amiba (from the Greek amoibÃ¨, meaning "change") was erected by the French naturalist Bory de Saint-Vincent.[41][42] Bory's contemporary, C. G. Ehrenberg, adopted the genus in his own classification of microscopic creatures, but changed the spelling to Amoeba.[43]