Sarcomonadea

Sarcomonadea
Cercomonas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Cercozoa
Subphylum: Monadofilosa
Superclass: Ventrifilosa
Class: Sarcomonadea
Cavalier-Smith, 1993 stat. nov. 1995 emend. 2018
Subclasses and orders

The sarcomonads (from Ancient Greek σαρκώδης (sarkṓdēs) 'fleshy, i.e. amoeboid' and μονάς (monás) 'unit') or class Sarcomonadea are a group of amoeboid biciliate protists in the phylum Cercozoa.[1] They are characterized by a propensity to move through gliding on their posterior cilium or through filopodia,[2] a lack of scales or external theca, a soft cell surface without obvious cortical filamentous or membranous skeleton, two cilia without scales or hairs, tubular mitochondrial cristae, near-spherical extrusomes, and a microbody (probably a peroxisome) attached to the nucleus.[3]

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