Telonema | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Phylum: | Telonemia |
Class: | Telonemea |
Order: | Telonemida |
Family: | Telonemidae |
Genus: | Telonema Griessmann, 1913 |
Type species | |
Telonema subtile Griessmann, 1913 | |
Other species | |
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Telonema is a genus of single-celled organisms.
Some sources group Telonema within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage. [1] It is sometimes assigned to a unique phylum, Telonemia. [2] Although Telonema is within the Eukaryota Domain, it does not have any close relations to other organisms within that domain. [3] However, it was once thought Telonema was closely related to photosynthetic cryptomonads, or stramenopiles and centrohelids, but there was not enough data to prove this. [4] After a study of 127 genes across 72 species, they found that Telonema subtile could be related to Alveolata and Rhizaria. [4]
Two species are recognized by AlgaeBase as of 2013, Telonema subtile and T. antarcticum . [5] The latter was described in 2005. [6]
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