Telonema

Telonema is a genus of single-celled organisms.

Telonema
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Telonemia
Class:	Telonemea
Order:	Telonemida
Family:	Telonemidae
Genus:	Telonema Griessmann, 1913
Type species
Telonema subtile Griessmann, 1913
Other species
T. antarcticum Thomsen 2005

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]

Species

Two species are recognized by AlgaeBase as of 2013, Telonema subtile and T. antarcticum.^[5] The latter was described in 2005.^[6]

Other sources call the former Telonema subtilis.^[6][7]