Telonema
Genus of single-celled organisms
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Telonema is a genus of single-celled organisms.
| Telonema | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Telonemia |
| Class: | Telonemea |
| Order: | Telonemida |
| Family: | Telonemidae |
| Genus: | Telonema Griessmann, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Telonema subtile Griessmann, 1913 | |
| Other species | |
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T. antarcticum Thomsen 2005 | |
Some sources group Telonema within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage.[1] It is sometimes assigned to a unique phylum, Telonemia.[2] Although Telonema is within the Eukaryota Domain, it does not have any close relations to other organisms within that domain.[3] However, it was once thought Telonema was closely related to photosynthetic cryptomonads, or stramenopiles and centrohelids, but there was not enough data to prove this.[4] After a study of 127 genes across 72 species, they found that Telonema subtile could be related to Alveolata and Rhizaria.[4]
