Bodo (excavate)
| Bodo | |
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| Bodo saltans | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | Excavata |
| Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
| Class: | Kinetoplastida |
| Order: | Bodonida |
| Genus: | Bodo Ehrenberg, 1830. |
Bodo is a genus of flagellate excavates.[1] They are free-living relatives of the parasitic trypanosomes. The most well-known species is Bodo saltans.
Species include:[2]
- Bodo curvifilus
- Bodo cyclostomus
- Bodo edax
- Bodo repens
Bodo sp.
Bodo globosus
Bodo caudatus
Bodo caudatus cysts
References
- ↑ Kent, William Saville (1881). A manual of the Infusoria: including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. the University of Michigan: David Bogue. p. 255.
- ↑ Guiry, M. D. & G. M. Guiry. 2013. Bodo. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 11 June 2013.
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