Dinenympha

Dinenympha
Dinenympha from Reticulotermes termite, light micrograph of living cell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Excavata
Phylum:	Metamonada
Class:	Preaxostyla
Order:	Oxymonadida
Family:	Pyrsonymphidae
Genus:	Dinenympha Leidy 1877
Type species
Dinenympha gracilis Leidy 1877
Species
See text
Synonyms
Pyrsonympha (Dinenympha) (Leidy 1877) Koidzumi 1921

Dinenympha is a genus of Excavata.

It includes the species Dinenympha exilis. ^[1]

Species

List of Dinenympha species.

• D. aculeataGeorgevitch 1951
• D. aviformisGeorgevitch 1951
• D. exilisKoidzumi 1921
• D. fimbriataKirby 1924
• D. gracilisLeidy 1877
• D. leidyiKoidzumi 1921
• D. mukundaiMukherjee & Maiti 1989
• D. nobilisKoidzumi 1921
• D. parvaKoidzumi 1921
• D. porteriKoidzumi 1921
• D. rayiMukherjee & Maiti 1989
• D. rugosaKoidzumi 1921

References

1. Moriya S, Ohkuma M, Kudo T (April 1998). "Phylogenetic position of symbiotic protist Dinenympha [correction of Dinemympha] exilis in the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus inferred from the protein phylogeny of elongation factor 1 alpha". Gene. 210 (2): 221–7. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00078-X. PMID   9573371.