Commation

Commation is a genus of marine heterotrophic protists closely related to the actinophryids. It contains two species, Commation cryoporinum and Commation eposianum, discovered in antarctic waters and described in 1993. Currently, the genus is classified within a monotypic family Commatiidae and order Commatiida. Along with the photosynthetic raphidophytes, these organisms compose the class of stramenopiles known as Raphidomonadea.

Commation
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Superclass: Raphidoistia
Class: Raphidomonadea
Subclass: Raphopoda
Order: Commatiida
Cavalier-Smith, 1997
Family: Commatiidae
Cavalier-Smith & Scoble, 2013
Genus: Commation
Thomsen & Larsen, 1993
Type species
Commation eposianum
Thomsen & Larsen, 1993
Species
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