Chilomonas
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| Chilomonas | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Pancryptista |
| Phylum: | Cryptista |
| Superclass: | Cryptomonada |
| Class: | Cryptophyceae |
| Order: | Cryptomonadales |
| Family: | Campylomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Chilomonas Ehrenberg ex Ralfs, 1831 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Chilomonas paramecium Ehrenberg 1831 | |
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Chilomonas is a genus of freshwater cryptophytes, including the species Chilomonas paramecium.[2] Members of this genus are osmotrophic heterotrophs possessing leucoplasts but not pigmented plastids.[3] The periplastidial compartment contains multiple nucleomorphs.[3]
