Proteromonas
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Proteromonas is a genus of heterokonts. It lives in the gut of amphibians and reptiles.[1]
An example is Proteromonas lacertae.[2]
Proteromonas is notable by location of mastigonemes not on its flagella, but on posterior part of the cell.[1] Such mastigonemes are called somatonemes.
List of Species
- P. brevifilia Aléxéieff 1946
- P. dolichomastix Künstler 1889
- P. chameleoni Krishnamurthy 1963
- P. ganapatii Saratchandra 1981
- P. grassei Saratchandra & Narasimhamurti 1980
- P. hareni (Ray & Singh 1949)
- P. hystrixi Todd 1963
- P. kakatiyae Bhaskar Rao et al. 1978
- P. krishnamurthyi Saratchandra & Ramesh Babu 1982
- P. longifila (Lemmermann 1913) Grassé 1926
- P. mabuiae Saratchandra, Vijayanand & Venkateswarlu 1984
- P. ophisauri Chikovani 1970
- P. rattusi Kalavathi, Saratchandra & Sambasivarao 1983
- P. regnardi
- P. sanjivei Grewal 1966
- P. steinii Ettl 1984
- P. uromastixi Janakidevi 1962
- P. waltairensis Saratchandra & Narasimhamurti 1980
- P. warangalensis Bhaskar Rao et al. 1978
- P. lacertae (Grassé 1882)
- P. lacertae-viridis (Grassé 1879) Grassé 1926
References
- ^ a b Sleigh M. A. (1991). Protozoa and Other Protists (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780521428057.
- ^ Hoevers JD, Snowden KF (August 2005). "Analysis of the ITS region and partial ssu and lsu rRNA genes of Blastocystis and Proteromonas lacertae". Parasitology. 131 (Pt 2): 187–96. doi:10.1017/S0031182005007596. PMID 16145935.
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