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Phalansterium
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Phalansterium is a genus of single-celled flagellated organisms comprising several species, which form colonies.[1] Phalansterium produces tetraspores.[2]
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Phalansterium digitatum (figure 8) | |
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Order: | Hibberd, 1983 |
Family: | Phalansteriidae Kent, 1880-1881 |
Genus: | Phalansterium Cienkowski, 1870 |
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Phalansterium is hard to classify; it has a distinctive ultrastructure of its pericentriolar material. Molecular evidence places it in the Amoebozoa.[3][4]
It has been suggested that it is similar to the ancestral eukaryote.[5]