Mantamonas

Mantamonas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Opimoda
Clade: CRuMs
Class: Glissodiscea
Cavalier-Smith 2013 emend. 2021[2]
Order: Mantamonadida
Cavalier-Smith 2011[1]
Family: Mantamonadidae
Cavalier-Smith 2011[1]
Genus: Mantamonas
Cavalier-Smith & Glücksman 2011[1]
Type species
Mantamonas plastica
Glücksman & Cavalier-Smith 2011[1]
Species
Diversity
3 species[3]

Mantamonads are a group of free-living heterotrophic flagellates that move primarily by gliding on surfaces (rather than swimming). They are classified as one genus Mantamonas in the monotypic family Mantamonadidae, order Mantamonadida and class Glissodiscea.[2] Previously, they were classified in Apusozoa as sister of the Apusomonadida on the basis of rRNA analyses.[1][4] However, mantamonads are currently placed in CRuMs on the basis of phylogenomic analyses that identify their closest relatives as the Diphylleida and Rigifilida.[5][6]

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