Proleptomonas

Proleptomonas is a genus of coprophilic protists, containing the single species Proleptomonas faecicola. It belongs to the phylum Cercozoa, although it was previously considered the only free-living kinetoplastid.^[1][2] It is the only member of family Proleptomonadidae.^[3]

Proleptomonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Rhizaria
Phylum:	Cercozoa
Class:	Sarcomonadea
Order:	Glissomonadida
Suborder:	Sandonina
Family:	Proleptomonadidae Howe, Bass, Vickerman, Chao & Cavalier-Smith, 2009
Genus:	Proleptomonas Woodcock, 1916
Species:	P. faecicola
Binomial name
Proleptomonas faecicola Woodcock, 1916