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Genus of single-celled organisms From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Telonema is a genus of single-celled organisms.
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 | |
Species | |
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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 subtilis could be related to alveolate 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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