Chelonemonas

Chelonemonas (from Greek chelone 'turtle' and monas 'monad, unicellular organism') is a genus of heterotrophic protists. They are unicellular eukaryotes with two flagella, characterized by the presence of a honeycomb or turtle shell pattern on the dorsal surface of their cells that is visible under electron microscopy. They belong to the Apusomonadida, a clade of flagellates related to the opisthokonts, the group containing animals, fungi and their closest protist relatives.^[2]

Chelonemonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Class:	Thecomonadea
Order:	Apusomonadida
Family:	Apusomonadidae
Subfamily:	Thecamonadinae
Genus:	Chelonemonas Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
Type species
Chelonemonas masanensis Heiss, Lee, Ishida & Simpson, 2015[1]
Species
C. masanensis C. geobuk C. dolani

Chelonemonas was described in 2015, along with its type species C. masanensis and C. geobuk.^[1] In 2022, a new species C. dolani was described.^[3]