Gigantomonas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gigantomonadida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Protozoa Subregnum: Eozoa Infraregnum: Excavata Phylum: Metamonada Subphylum: Trichozoa Superclassis: Parabasalia Classis: Cristamonadea Ordo: Gigantomonadida

Familia: Gigantomonadidae
Genus: Gigantomonas
Species: Gigantomonas herculea

Name

Gigantomonas Dogiel, Zool. Vestnik 1: 6, 37 (1916)

• Type species: Gigantomonas herculea Dogiel (1916)

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
• Myxomonas Dogiel, Zool. Vestnik 1: 15, 42 (1916) nom. illeg. (non Myxomonas Brzeziński, 1906) – synonymized by Kirby, 1946: 191
  • Type species: Myxomonas polymorpha Dogiel (1916)

References

Primary references

• Dogiel, V.A. (Догель, В.А.) 1916. Изслѣдованiя надъ паразитическими Protozoa изъ кишечника термитовъ. I. Tetramitidae [Researches on the parasitic Protozoa from the intestine of termites. I. Tetramitidae]. Zoologicheskii vestnik 1(1): 1–35 (Russian), 36–54, pl. 1–4 (English). Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kirby, H. 1946. Gigantomonas herculea Dogiel, a polymastigote flagellate with flagellated and amoeboid phases of development. University of California Publications in Zoology 53: 163–226. Reference page.