''Remanella'' is a genus of karyorelict ciliates, belonging to family

Loxodidae Loxodidae is a family of karyorelict ciliates. Loxodidae members possess an elongated, laterally flattened shape. They share two key characters: a beak-like anterior rostrum interrupting the perioral kineties, and peculiar cytoplasmic organelle ...

. Whereas ''Remanella'' inhabits brackish and marine waters, ''

Loxodes ''Loxodes'' is a genus of karyorelictean ciliates, belonging to family Loxodidae. It is the only known karyorelictean ciliate that lives in freshwater habitats. The term ''Loxodes'' derives from the ancient greek (), meaning "oblique, tilted". ...

'' – the other loxodid genus – is a freshwater taxon.

Etymology

The genus name is a

patronym A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, alt ...

honoring the German zoologist

Adolf Remane Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ...

(1898–1976), who contributed to the discovery of the marine interstitial fauna.

Phylogeny

Molecular phylogeny based on sequences of the SSU rRNA gene suggests that the genus ''Remanella'' might be

paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...

with respect to a

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...

genus ''Loxodes'' but this result is not strongly supported.

Species list

At least 18 species are recognized in the genus ''Remanella'':

References

External links

* ' {{Taxonbar, from=Q25363938 Karyorelictea Ciliate genera