Dinenympha

Dinenympha
Dinenympha from Reticulotermes termite, light micrograph of living cell
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
Excavata
Phylum:
Metamonada
Class:
Preaxostyla
Order:
Oxymonadida
Family:
Pyrsonymphidae
Genus:
Dinenympha

Leidy 1877
Type species
Dinenympha gracilis
Leidy 1877
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Pyrsonympha (Dinenympha) (Leidy 1877) Koidzumi 1921

Dinenympha is a genus of Excavata.

It includes the species Dinenympha exilis.[1]

Species

List of Dinenympha species.

  • D. aculeata Georgevitch 1951
  • D. aviformis Georgevitch 1951
  • D. exilis Koidzumi 1921
  • D. fimbriata Kirby 1924
  • D. gracilis Leidy 1877
  • D. leidyi Koidzumi 1921
  • D. mukundai Mukherjee & Maiti 1989
  • D. nobilis Koidzumi 1921
  • D. parva Koidzumi 1921
  • D. porteri Koidzumi 1921
  • D. rayi Mukherjee & Maiti 1989
  • D. rugosa Koidzumi 1921

References

  1. ^ Moriya S, Ohkuma M, Kudo T (April 1998). "Phylogenetic position of symbiotic protist Dinenympha [correction of Dinemympha] exilis in the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus inferred from the protein phylogeny of elongation factor 1 alpha". Gene. 210 (2): 221–7. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00078-X. PMID 9573371.
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