Ancyromonas

Ancyromonas
Ancyromonas sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Phylum: Planomonada
Class: Planomonadea
Order: Ancyromonadida
Family: Ancyromonadidae
Genus: Ancyromonas
Kent 1880
Type species
Ancyromonas sigmoides
Kent, 1880
Species

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Synonyms
  • Phyllomonas Klebs 1892

Ancyromonas is a genus of basal Eukaryote consisting of heterotrophic flagellates.[1]

It includes the species Ancyromonas sigmoides,[2] first described by Saville Kent in 1880. The genus was rediscovered in modern times by Hänel in 1979.

They are about 5 μm long and live in both marine and freshwater habitats with a global distribution.

In 2008, Cavalier-Smith et al. proposed the reassignment of all known species of Ancyromonas into a new genus, Planomonas. Planomonas has since been described as a junior synonym of Ancyromonas.[3] Ancyromonas does not belong to any of the eukaryotic supergroups, and they appear more basal than Malawimonas, placing them in Loukouzoa, possibly relatives of podiates, and depending on the placement of the root position of the Eukaryotes.[4][5]

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  2. ^ Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE, Stechmann A, Oates B, Nikolaev S (October 2008). "Planomonadida ord. nov. (Apusozoa): ultrastructural affinity with Micronuclearia podoventralis and deep divergences within Planomonas gen. nov". Protist. 159 (4): 535–62. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.06.002. PMID 18723395.
  3. ^ Heiss AA, Walker G, Simpson AG (May 2010). "Clarifying the taxonomic identity of a phylogenetically important group of eukaryotes: Planomonas is a junior synonym of Ancyromonas". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 57 (3): 285–93. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2010.00477.x. PMID 20384907.
  4. ^ Brown, Matthew W.; Heiss, Aaron; Kamikawa, Ryoma; Inagaki, Yuji; Yabuki, Akinori; Tice, Alexander K.; Shiratori, Takashi; Ishida, Ken; Hashimoto, Tetsuo (2017-12-03). "Phylogenomics places orphan protistan lineages in a novel eukaryotic super-group". Genome Biol Evol. 10. doi:10.1093/gbe/evy014. PMC 5793813. PMID 29360967.
  5. ^ Torruella, Guifré; Mendoza, Alex de; Grau-Bové, Xavier; Antó, Meritxell; Chaplin, Mark A.; Campo, Javier del; Eme, Laura; Pérez-Cordón, Gregorio; Whipps, Christopher M. (2015). "Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi". Current Biology. 25 (18): 2404–2410. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.053. PMID 26365255.