Chelonemonas

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| taxon = Chelonemonas

| authority = Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| type_species = Chelonemonas masanensis

| type_species_authority = Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015

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Chelonemonas ({{etymology|gre|chelone|turtle||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 was described in 2015, along with its type species C. masanensis and C. geobuk. In 2022, a new species C. dolani was described.

References

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{{cite journal|vauthors=Torruella G, Galindo LJ, Moreira D, Ciobanu M, Heiss AA, Yubuki N, etal.|date=November 2022|title=Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep-branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists|journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology|volume=70|issue=2|pages=e12956|doi=10.1111/jeu.12956|hdl=2117/404026|hdl-access=free}}

{{cite journal|first1=Aaron A.|last1=Heiss | first2 = Won J. | last2 = Lee | first3 = Ken-ichiro | last3 = Ishida | first4 = Alastair G. B. | last4 = Simpson | date = 2015 | title = Cultivation and Characterisation of New Species of Apusomonads (the Sister Group to Opisthokonts), Including Close Relatives of Thecamonas (Chelonemonas n. gen.) | journal = Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | volume = 62 | pages = 637–649 | doi = 10.1111/jeu.12220}}

{{cite journal|vauthors=Yabuki A, Tame A, Mizuno K|date=2022|title=Podomonas kaiyoae n. sp., a novel apusomonad growing axenically|journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology|volume=70|issue=2|pages=e12946|doi=10.1111/jeu.12946|doi-access=free}}

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Category:Taxa described in 2015

Category:Apusomonadida