Rastrimonas

Rastrimonas is a monotypic genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. It contains the single species Rastrimonas subtilis. It was described in 2002 from the free-living cryptomonad Chilomonas paramaecium and placed in the new genus Cryptophagus.^[1] The following year this was renamed Rastrimonas.^[2]

Rastrimonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	SAR
(unranked):	Alveolata
Phylum:	Perkinsozoa
Class:	Perkinsea
Order:	Rastrimonadida
Family:	Rastrimonadidae
Genus:	Rastrimonas Brugerolle 2003
Species:	R. subtilis
Binomial name
Rastrimonas subtilis (Brugerolle 2002) Brugerolle 2003
Synonyms
Cryptophagus Brugerolle 2002 non Herbst 1863 non Rafinesque 1815 nomen nudum Cryptophagus subtilis Brugerolle 2002