Nanum amicum

Nanum amicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Bigyra
Order: Bicosoecida
Family: Pseudodendromonadidae
Genus: Nanum
Cavalier-Smith 2013[1]
Species:
N. amicum
Binomial name
Nanum amicum
(Kim et al. 2010) Cavalier-Smith 2013
Synonyms

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. 1 2 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): 328โ€“353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.
  2. โ†‘ 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 177โ€“196, doi:10.1016/j.protis.2009.09.003
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