Reclinomonas

Reclinomonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Excavata
Class:	Jakobea
Order:	Jakobida
Family:	Histionidae
Genus:	Reclinomonas Flavin & Nerad, 1993
Species:	R. americana
Binomial name
Reclinomonas americana Flavin & Nerad, 1993

Reclinomonas is a monotypic genus of jakobid eukaryotes containing the single species Reclinomonas americana.

This organism is a single cell up to 12 micrometers wide. It has two flagella. The cell is in a cup-like lorica which has a stem that attaches to a surface. When the cell reproduces, by undergoing binary fission, one of the two newly split cells produces a new lorica for itself.

This protozoan can be found in freshwater.

This species was the first jakobid to have its sequenced. It contains 97 genes. 62 of them code for proteins. Other jakobids have been sequenced since, and the data was similar.

This protozoan feeds on bacteria. It has been described as an excavate.

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