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Nanofila

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Nanofila
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Cercozoa
Class: Granofilosea
Order: Cryptofilida
Family: Nanofilidae
Cavalier-Smith & Bass, 2009
Genus: Nanofila
Cavalier-Smith & Bass, 2009
Species:
N. marina
Binomial name
Nanofila marina
Cavalier-Smith & Bass, 2009[1]
Type strain
USNM51490

Nanofila (from Latin nanos 'tiny' and fila 'threads') is a genus of marine heterotrophic protists of the phylum Cercozoa. It is the only genus in the family Nanofilidae. It is a monotypic genus, with the sole species N. marina.[1]

Morphology

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Nanofila are small amoebae with unbranched, granular filopodia. They lack cilia, have a spherical shape of around 3 μm in diameter, and extend about six extremely thin filopodia that lie flat against the substrate.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, Yabuki A, Ishida KI, Berney C, Pakzad U, Wylezich C, Cavalier-Smith T (2009). "Phylogeny of Novel Naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea Revised". Protist. 160 (1): 75–109. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.07.002. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 18952499.