Chelonemonas
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.
| Chelonemonas | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Class: | Thecomonadea |
| Order: | Apusomonadida |
| Family: | Apusomonadidae |
| Subfamily: | Thecamonadinae |
| Genus: | Chelonemonas Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015 |
| Type species | |
| Chelonemonas masanensis Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015 | |
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Chelonemonas was described in 2015, along with its type species C. masanensis and C. geobuk. In 2022, a new species C. dolani was described.
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