Proleptomonas

Proleptomonas
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Rhizaria
Phylum: Cercozoa
Class: Sarcomonadea
Order: Glissomonadida
Suborder: Sandonina
Family:
Howe, Bass, Vickerman, Chao & Cavalier-Smith, 2009
Genus:
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]

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