Sinistermonas Lee nov. gen., 2015

Lee, Won Je, 2015, Small Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Marine Sediments of Gippsland Basin, South-Eastern Australia, Acta Protozoologica 54 (1), pp. 53-76 : 68

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4467/16890027AP.15.005.2192
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12522343
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B708784-E66C-8920-FCBA-FC2A2039D60D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Sinistermonas Lee nov. gen.
status	gen. nov.

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Sinistermonas Lee nov. gen.

Diagnosis: Biflagellated colourless protists of unknown affinities. Body rigid and flattened with ventral depression subapically. With two flagella, both inserting into ventral depression. The anterior flagellum is directed anterior-laterally to the left, the other trailing. Move by gliding.

Type species: Sinistermonas sinistrorsus nov. spec.

Etymology: the name refers ‘to the left’.