Histiona

{{Short description|Genus of eukaryotes}}

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{{taxobox

| name = Histiona

| image = Jakobida.svg

| image_caption = Four jakobid species, showing groove and flagella: Jakoba libera (ventral view), Stygiella incarcerata (ventral view), Reclinomonas americana (dorsal view), and Histiona aroides (ventral view)

| phylum = Excavata

| classis = Jakobea

| ordo = Jakobida

| familia = Histionidae

| genus = Histiona

| genus_authority = Voigt 1902

| type_species = Histiona zachariasi

| type_species_authority = Voigt 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * H. aroides Pascher 1943

• H. zachariasi Voigt 1902
• H. velifera (Voigt 1901) Pascher 1943

| synonyms = * Zachariasia Voigt 1901 non Lemmermann 1895

}}

Histiona is a genus of Excavata containing four species. It has a worldwide distribution.{{Cite web |title=Histiona Max Voigt, 1902 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2652219 |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}

It is a Jakobid.{{cite journal |title=On core jakobids and excavate taxa: the ultrastructure of Jakoba incarcerata |journal=J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=480–92 |year=2001 |pmid=11456326 |doi= 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00183.x|author1=Simpson AG |author2=Patterson DJ |name-list-style=vanc}}