Chelonemonas

Chelonemonas
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Class: Thecomonadea
Order: Apusomonadida
Family: Apusomonadidae
Subfamily: Thecamonadinae
Genus:
Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
Type species
Chelonemonas masanensis
Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
Species
  • C. masanensis
  • C. geobuk
  • C. dolani

Chelonemonas (from Greek 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]

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