Rastrimonas
Rastrimonas is a monotypic genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. It contains the single species Rastrimonas subtilis. It was described in 2002 from the free-living cryptomonad Chilomonas paramaecium and placed in the new genus Cryptophagus.[1] The following year this was renamed Rastrimonas.[2]
Rastrimonas | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
(unranked): | SAR |
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Order: | Rastrimonadida |
Family: | Rastrimonadidae |
Genus: | Rastrimonas Brugerolle 2003 |
Species: | R. subtilis |
Binomial name | |
Rastrimonas subtilis (Brugerolle 2002) Brugerolle 2003 | |
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References
- Brugerolle, G. (2002). "Cryptophagus subtilis: a new parasite of cryptophytes affiliated with the Perkinsozoa lineage". Eur J Protistol. 37 (4): 379–90. doi:10.1078/0932-4739-00837.
- Brugerolle, G. (2003). "Apicomplexan parasite Cryptophagus renamed Rastrimonas gen. nov". Eur J Protistol. 39 (1): 101. doi:10.1078/0932-4739-00910.
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