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 Apusmonadida 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]
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"wings" that resemble the fins of a manta ray (hence the name Mantamonas). Mantamonas are marine gliding heterotrophic flagellates. M. plastica was isolated...
Mantamonas sphyraenae is a species of marine heterotrophic flagellates described in 2021. It belongs to the Mantamonadida, a basal eukaryotic lineage within...
cell. The transcriptome of Mantamonas vickermani is estimated to be 21 megabases long, with 9,561 unique proteins. Mantamonas vickermani was isolated from...
include planomonads, Mantamonas and Collodictyon. A new taxon has been created - Glissodiscea - for the planomonads and Mantamonas. Again, the validity...
its morphological characteristics apply to the other species of Mantamonas. Mantamonas plastica was collected in 2011 from coastal sediment on Cumbria...
research places them in a new 'supergroup' together with rigifilids and Mantamonas, with the so-far informal name 'CRuMs'. Four species are currently recognised...
Diphyllatea and Glissodiscea) also appear paraphyletic or polyphyletic, since Mantamonas belongs to CRuMs but ancyromonads do not. Varisulca appear to be paraphyletic...
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