Telonema

Telonema is a genus of single-celled organisms.

Telonema
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Phylum: Telonemia
Class: Telonemea
Order: Telonemida
Family: Telonemidae
Genus: Telonema
Griessmann, 1913
Type species
Telonema subtile
Griessmann, 1913
Species
  • T. antarcticum Thomsen 2005
  • T. subtile Greissmann 1913

Some sources group Telonema within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage. It is sometimes assigned to a unique phylum, Telonemia. Although Telonema is within the Eukaryota Domain, it does not have any close relations to other organisms within that domain . However, it was once thought Telonema was closely related to photosynthetic cryptomonads, or stramenopiles and centrohelids, but there was not enough data to prove this. After a study of 127 genes across 72 species, they found that Telonema subtilis could be related to alveolate and rhizaria.

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