Amastigomonas
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| Amastigomonas | |
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| Amastigomonas Bar is 10 micrometres. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Amorphea |
| Class: | Thecomonadea |
| Order: | Apusomonadida |
| Family: | Apusomonadidae |
| Genus: | Amastigomonas de Saedeleer 1931[1] |
| Type species | |
| Amastigomonas debruynei de Saedeleer 1931 | |
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Amastigomonas is a genus of protists belonging to a lineage of biciliated zooflagellates known as Apusomonadida.[2] It was first described in 1931 by Henri de Saedeleer.[1] The current use of Amastigomonas is as a descriptive archetype, with no phylogenetic or taxonomic implications. The term "Amastigomonas-like" is used to refer to all apusomonads that lack the 'derived' characteristics of Apusomonas.[3]
Organisms under the name "Amastigomonas" have an oval or oblong cell that can generate pseudopodia from the ventral surface. They lack a mastigophore, a projection of the cell body that contains both basal bodies at its end. Like all Apusomonadida, they have two flagella, and the anterior flagellum is surrounded by a membranous sleeve.[3]