Nanum amicum

Nanum amicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Bigyra
Class: Bikosea
Order: Pseudodendromonadida
Family: Nanidae
Cavalier-Smith, 2013
Genus: Nanum
Cavalier-Smith, 2013[1]
Species:
N. amicum
Binomial name
Nanum amicum
(Kim et al. 2010) Cavalier-Smith 2013
Synonyms
  • Nanos Kim et al. 2010[2] non Westwood 1847
  • Nanos amicus Kim et al. 2010

Nanum is a genus of bicosoecids, a small group of unicellular flagellates, included among the heterokonts. It includes the sole species Nanum amicum, previously known as Nanos amicus but modified because the name Nanos was already occupied by a species of beetle.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Cavalier-Smith, T; Scoble, J. M. (2013). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.
  2. ^ Kim, E., Yubuki, Y., Leander, B.S., Graham, L.E. 2010: Ultrastructure and 18S rDNA phylogeny of Apoikia lindahlii comb. nov (Chrysophyceae) and its epibiontic protists, Filos agilis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida) and Nanos amicus gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida). Protist, 161(2), pages 177–196, doi:10.1016/j.protis.2009.09.003
  • Data related to Nanum at Wikispecies
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