Katabia | |
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Light contrast microphotograph of K. gromovi showing anterior (af) and posterior (pf) flagella, a nucleus (n) and a vacuole (fv) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Phylum: | Cercozoa |
Class: | Sarcomonadea |
Family: | Katabiidae |
Genus: | Katabia Karpov, Ekelund & Moestrup, 2003 |
Species: | K. gromovi
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Binomial name | |
Katabia gromovi Karpov, Ekelund & Moestrup, 2003
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Katabia is a genus of soil-dwelling heterotrophic flagellate cercozoans containing the single species Katabia gromovi,[1] and the only member of family Katabiidae.[2]