Biology:Chelonemonas
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Short description: Genus of flagellates
| Chelonemonas | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Class: | Thecomonadea |
| Order: | Apusomonadida |
| Family: | Apusomonadidae |
| Subfamily: | Thecamonadinae |
| Genus: | Chelonemonas Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chelonemonas masanensis Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
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Chelonemonas (from gre chelone 'turtle', and monas 'monad, unicellular organism') is a genus of heterotrophic protists. They are unicellular eukaryotes with two flagella, characterized by the presence of a honeycomb or turtle shell pattern on the dorsal surface of their cells that is visible under electron microscopy. They belong to the Apusomonadida, a clade of flagellates related to the opisthokonts, the group containing animals, fungi and their closest protist relatives.[2]
Chelonemonas was described in 2015, along with its type species C. masanensis and C. geobuk.[1] In 2022, a new species C. dolani was described.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Heiss, Aaron A.; Lee, Won J.; Ishida, Ken-ichiro; Simpson, Alastair G. B. (2015). "Cultivation and Characterisation of New Species of Apusomonads (the Sister Group to Opisthokonts), Including Close Relatives of Thecamonas (Chelonemonas n. gen.)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 62: 637–649. doi:10.1111/jeu.12220.
- ↑ "Podomonas kaiyoae n. sp., a novel apusomonad growing axenically". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 70 (2): e12946. 2022. doi:10.1111/jeu.12946.
- ↑ "Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep-branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 70 (2): e12956. November 2022. doi:10.1111/jeu.12956.
Wikidata ☰ Q25369555 entry
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