Tunicaraptor
Tunicaraptor is a genus of marine microbial protists containing the single species Tunicaraptor unikontum, discovered in 2020 from marine waters of Chile. It is a lineage of predatorial flagellates closely related to animals. It has a rare feeding structure not seen in other opisthokonts.
| Tunicaraptor | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Amorphea |
| Clade: | Obazoa |
| (unranked): | Opisthokonta |
| (unranked): | Holozoa |
| Genus: | Tunicaraptor Tikhonenkov et al. 2020 |
| Species: | T. unikontum |
| Binomial name | |
| Tunicaraptor unikontum Tikhonenkov et al. 2020 | |
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