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| Genus: | Goniomonas von Stein 1878[1]
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| Goniomonas truncata (Fresenius 1858) von Stein 1878
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Goniomonas is a genus of Cryptomonads and contains five species.[2] It is a genus of single-celled eukaryotes, including both freshwater and marine species.[2] It lacks plastids, which is very unusual among all of the Cryptophyte genera.[2] It may reflect one of only a small number of times that the Cryptophytes evolved into freshwater habitats.[3] Goniomonas seems to have a number of freshwater relatives which have not yet been cultured and named.
- ^ Stein, F. von (1878). Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere nach eigenen Forschungen in systematischer Reihenfolge bearbeitet III. Abtheilung. Die Naturgeschicnte der Flagellaten oder Geisselinfusorien. Mit 24 Küpfertaflen. I. Halfte, den noch nicht abgeschlossenen allgemeinen Theil nebst Erklärung der Sämmtlichen Abbildungen enthaltend. pp. 1-154, pls I-XXIV. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.
- ^ a b c "Genus Detail :: Algaebase". www.algaebase.org. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
- ^ Heyden, Sophie von der; Chao, Ema; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2004-11-01). "Genetic diversity of goniomonads: an ancient divergence between marine and freshwater species". European Journal of Phycology. 39 (4): 343–350. doi:10.1080/09670260400005567. ISSN 0967-0262. S2CID 83767174.