Chelonemonas

Chelonemonas (from Greek chelone 'turtle', and 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.[2]

Chelonemonas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Class: Thecomonadea
Order: Apusomonadida
Family: Apusomonadidae
Subfamily: Thecamonadinae
Genus: Chelonemonas
Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
Type species
Chelonemonas masanensis
Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
Species
  • C. masanensis
  • C. geobuk
  • C. dolani

Chelonemonas was described in 2015, along with its type species C. masanensis and C. geobuk.[1] In 2022, a new species C. dolani was described.[3]

References
  1. Heiss, Aaron A.; Lee, Won J.; Ishida, Ken-ichiro; Simpson, Alastair G. B. (2015). "Cultivation and Characterisation of New Species of Apusomonads (the Sister Group to Opisthokonts), Including Close Relatives of Thecamonas (Chelonemonas n. gen.)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 62: 637–649. doi:10.1111/jeu.12220.
  2. Yabuki A, Tame A, Mizuno K (2022). "Podomonas kaiyoae n. sp., a novel apusomonad growing axenically". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70 (2): e12946. doi:10.1111/jeu.12946.
  3. Torruella G, Galindo LJ, Moreira D, Ciobanu M, Heiss AA, Yubuki N, et al. (November 2022). "Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep-branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70 (2): e12956. doi:10.1111/jeu.12956.
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