Apusomonas

{{Short description|Genus of micro-organisms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Apusomonas.png

| image_caption = Apusomonas sp.

| image_alt =

| taxon = Apusomonas

| authority = Aléxéieff, 1924

| type_species = Apusomonas proboscidea

| type_species_authority = Aléxéieff, 1924

| display_parents = 5

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• A. australiensis Ekelund & Patterson 1997
• A. proboscidea Aléxéieff 1924

| synonyms =

• Rostromonas {{au|Karpov & Zhukov, 1980}}{{cite journal|last1=Karpov |first1=Serguey A.|title=The flagellar apparatus structure of Apusomonas proboscidea and apusomonad relationships|journal=Protistology|volume=5|issue=2–3|date=2007|pages=146–155|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/the-flagellarapparatusstructureofapusomonas-proboscidea-and-apusomonad-relationships/pdf}}

}}

Apusomonas is a genus of Apusozoa erected by A. G. Aléxéieff in 1924.{{cite journal |vauthors=Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE |title=Phylogeny of choanozoa, apusozoa, and other protozoa and early eukaryote megaevolution |journal=Journal of Molecular Evolution |volume=56 |issue=5 |pages=540–63 |date=May 2003 |pmid=12698292 |doi=10.1007/s00239-002-2424-z |bibcode=2003JMolE..56..540C}}

It includes the species Apusomonas proboscidea.{{cite journal |vauthors=Kim E, Simpson AG, Graham LE |title=Evolutionary relationships of apusomonads inferred from taxon-rich analyses of 6 nuclear encoded genes |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=23 |issue=12 |pages=2455–66 |date=December 2006 |pmid=16982820 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msl120 |doi-access=free}}