Paracercomonas

Paracercomonas
Systematics
without rank: Diaphoreticks without rank: Sar without rank: Rhizaria without rank: Cercozoa without rank: Cercomonadidae Genre : Paracercomonas
Scientific name
Paracercomonas
Cavalier-Smith and Bass , 2006

Paracercomonas is a genus of wild flagellates . It wasseparatedfrom the genus Cercomonas in 2006. They occur in soil and water.

features

The protozoa are sliding flagellates with a very flexible body. At every point in the cell they form pseudopodia of different shapes , including branched filopodia . During the movement, the cells touch the ground. The front flagellum performs slow, rowing movements, the rear flagella is dragged more passively.

Some species have a complex life cycle that includes multinucleated plasmodia and cysts . The mitochondria have cristae in the form of rounded tubules.

They differ from the closely related genera Cercomonas and Eocercomonas by the presence of cartwheels on both centrioles as well as by molecular genetic features.

Systematics

The genus Paracercomonas was separated from the genus Cercomonas in 2006 . It is the sister group of the pair Cercomonas and Eocercomonas along with some undescribed species :

NN	NN    Clade A1 = Cercomonas      Clade A2 = Eocercomonas   NN    Clade B1 = Paracercomonas      two unnamed Cercomonads

The genus includes the following species:

• Paracercomonas marina
• Paracercomonas ekelundi
• Paracercomonas metabolica

supporting documents

• Serguei A. Karpov, David Bass, Alexander P. Mylnikov, Thomas Cavalier-Smith : Molecular Phylogeny of Cercomonadidae and Kinetid Patterns of Cercomonas and Eocercomonas gen. Nov. (Cercomonadida, Cercozoa) . Protist, Volume 157, 2006, pp. 125-158, doi : 10.1016 / j.protis.2006.01.001