Proleptomonas

Proleptomonas is a genus of coprophilic protists, containing the single species Proleptomonas faecicola. It belongs to the phylum Cercozoa, although it was previously considered the only free-living kinetoplastid.^[1][2] It is the only member of family Proleptomonadidae.^[3]

Proleptomonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Phylum:	Cercozoa
Class:	Sarcomonadea
Order:	Glissomonadida
Suborder:	Sandonina
Family:	Proleptomonadidae Howe, Bass, Vickerman, Chao & Cavalier-Smith, 2009
Genus:	Proleptomonas Woodcock, 1916
Species:	P. faecicola
Binomial name
Proleptomonas faecicola Woodcock, 1916

References

1. Mylnikov AP, Karpov SA (2004). "Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads". Protistology. 3 (4): 201–17.
2. Vickerman K, Vickerman D, Hoef-Emden K, De Jonckheere J (2002). "The Soil Flagellate Proleptomonas faecicola: Cell Organisation and Phylogeny Suggest that the only Described Free-Living Trypanosomatid is not a Kinetoplastid but has Cercomonad Affinities". Protist. 153 (1): 9–24. doi:10.1078/1434-4610-00079.
3. Howe AT, Bass D, Vickerman K, Chao EE, Cavalier-Smith T (2009). "Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Astounding Genetic Diversity of Glissomonadida ord. nov., The Dominant Gliding Zooflagellates in Soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa)". Protist. 160 (2): 159–189. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.11.007. ISSN 1434-4610.