Cercomonas Dujardin, 1841
Lectotype species: Cercomonas longicauda Dujardin
Publication details: Dujardin, 1841: 287
Original publication: Dujardin, F. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Zoophytes, Infusoires, comprenant la physiologie et la clasification de ces animaux et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. pp. i-xii, 1-684. Paris: Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret.
Request PDFType designated in: Fromentel, É. (1874). Études sur les microzoaires. pp. i-vii, 1-364, 30 plates. Paris: G. Masson.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-02-06 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Bass, D., Howe, A.T., Mylnikov, A.P., Vickerman, K., Chao, E.E., Edwards Smallbone, J., Snell, J., Cabral, C. & Cavalier-Smith, T. (2009). Phylogeny and classification of Cercomonadida (Protozoa, Cercozoa): Cercomonas, Eocercomonas, Paracercomonas, and Cavernomonas gen. nov. Protist 160(4): 483-521, 15 figures.
Taxonomic notes
"Genus Cercomonas Dujardin 1841 emend. Karpov et al. 2006" (Bass et al. 2019). - (08 July 2020) - M.D. Guiry
Species by Liebetanz (1910) are fungal zoospores, see Borneman & Akin (1994). - (10 September 2021) - E.A. Molinari Novoa
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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 June 2025
