Mantamonas

Mantamonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	CRuMs
Class:	Glissodiscea; Cavalier-Smith 2013 emend. 2021
Order:	Mantamonadida; Cavalier-Smith 2011
Family:	Mantamonadidae; Cavalier-Smith 2011
Genus:	Mantamonas; Cavalier-Smith & Glücksman 2011
Type species
	Mantamonas plastica; Glücksman & Cavalier-Smith 2011
Other species
	Mantamonas sphyraenae Blaz et al. 2021; Mantamonas vickermani Blaz et al. 2021;
Diversity
	3 species

Mantamonads are a group of free-living heterotrophic flagellates that move primarily by gliding on surfaces (rather than swimming). They are classified as one genus Mantamonas in the monotypic family Mantamonadidae, order Mantamonadida and class Glissodiscea.^[2] Previously, they were classified in Apusozoa as sister of the Apusomonadida on the basis of rRNA analyses.^[1]^[4] However, mantamonads are currently placed in CRuMs on the basis of phylogenomic analyses that identify their closest relatives as the Diphylleida and Rigifilida.^[5]^[6] Proposedly they are currently the most basal group in CRuMs, outside of the GRiDi clade.^[7]

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^ Yazaki, Euki; Harada, Ryo; Isogai, Ryu; Bamba, Kohei; Ishida, Ken-ichiro; Inagaki, Yuji; Shiratori, Takashi (2025-02-20), Glissandra oviformis n. sp.: a novel predatory flagellate illuminates the character evolution within the eukaryotic clade CRuMs, bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2025.02.18.638917, retrieved 2025-05-17

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[7] Yazaki, Euki; Harada, Ryo; Isogai, Ryu; Bamba, Kohei; Ishida, Ken-ichiro; Inagaki, Yuji; Shiratori, Takashi (2025-02-20), Glissandra oviformis n. sp.: a novel predatory flagellate illuminates the character evolution within the eukaryotic clade CRuMs, bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2025.02.18.638917, retrieved 2025-05-17

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