Rastrimonas

Rastrimonas
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Rastrimonas

Brugerolle 2003
Species:
R. subtilis
Binomial name
Rastrimonas subtilis
(Brugerolle 2002) Brugerolle 2003
Synonyms
  • Cryptophagus Brugerolle 2002 non Herbst 1863 non Rafinesque 1815 nomen nudum
  • Cryptophagus subtilis Brugerolle 2002

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Brugerolle, G. (2003). "Apicomplexan parasite Cryptophagus renamed Rastrimonas gen. nov". Eur J Protistol. 39 (1): 101. doi:10.1078/0932-4739-00910.