Nanum is a genus of bicosoecids, a small group of unicellular flagellates, included among the heterokonts. It includes the sole species Nanum amicum, previously known as Nanos amicus but modified because the name Nanos was already occupied by a species of beetle.[1]
| Nanum amicum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Bigyra |
| Class: | Bikosea |
| Order: | Pseudodendromonadida |
| Family: | Nanidae Cavalier-Smith, 2013 |
| Genus: | Nanum Cavalier-Smith, 2013[1] |
| Species: | N. amicum
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| Binomial name | |
| Nanum amicum (Kim et al. 2010) Cavalier-Smith 2013
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References
edit- ^ a b Cavalier-Smith, T; Scoble, J. M. (2013). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.
- ^ Kim, E., Yubuki, Y., Leander, B.S., Graham, L.E. 2010: Ultrastructure and 18S rDNA phylogeny of Apoikia lindahlii comb. nov (Chrysophyceae) and its epibiontic protists, Filos agilis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida) and Nanos amicus gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida). Protist, 161(2), pages 177–196, doi:10.1016/j.protis.2009.09.003
External links
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