Biology:Proleptomonas

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Short description: Genus of soil protists

Proleptomonas
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Cercozoa
Class: Sarcomonadea
Order: Glissomonadida
Suborder: Sandonina
Family: Proleptomonadidae
Howe, Bass, Vickerman, Chao & Cavalier-Smith, 2009
Genus: Proleptomonas
Woodcock, 1916
Species:
P. faecicola
Binomial name
Proleptomonas faecicola
Woodcock, 1916

Proleptomonas is a genus of coprophilic protists, containing the single species Proleptomonas faecicola. It belongs to the phylum Cercozoa, although it was previously considered the only free-living kinetoplastid.[1][2] It is the only member of family Proleptomonadidae.[3]

References

  1. "Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads". Protistology 3 (4): 201–17. 2004. 
  2. "The Soil Flagellate Proleptomonas faecicola: Cell Organisation and Phylogeny Suggest that the only Described Free-Living Trypanosomatid is not a Kinetoplastid but has Cercomonad Affinities". Protist 153 (1): 9–24. 2002. doi:10.1078/1434-4610-00079. 
  3. "Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Astounding Genetic Diversity of Glissomonadida ord. nov., The Dominant Gliding Zooflagellates in Soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa)". Protist 160 (2): 159–189. 2009. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.11.007. ISSN 1434-4610. 

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