Chilomonas Ehrenberg 1831

Colourless cryptomonads with a rostrate anterior, not phagocytic; furrow/gullet complex consisting of a vestibulum, a short furrow and long tubular gullet; both flagella with a unilateral row of tubular hairs; periplast has an inner single sheet with numerous ejectisome pores and a surface periplast component consisting primarily of fibrils. The periplastidal compartment contains leucoplasts lacking thylakoids numerous large starch grains, and several nucleomorphs located in the periplastidal space near the nucleus. Freshwater.

Chilomonas, illustration

Chilomonas is a genus of cryptophytes, including the species Chilomonas paramecium. Chilomonas is a protozoa (heterotroph). Chilomonas is golden brown and has two flagella.