''Proteromonas'' is a genus of

heterokont Heterokonts are a group of protists (formally referred to as Heterokonta, Heterokontae or Heterokontophyta). The group is a major line of eukaryotes. Most are algae, ranging from the giant multicellular kelp to the unicellular diatoms, which a ...

s. It lives in the gut of amphibians and reptiles. An example is ''Proteromonas lacertae''. ''Proteromonas'' is notable by location of

mastigoneme Mastigonemes are lateral "hairs" that attach to protistan flagella. Flimsy hairs attach to the flagella of euglenid flagellates, while stiff hairs occur in stramenopile and cryptophyte protists.Hoek, C. van den, Mann, D. G. and Jahns, H. ...

s not on its flagella, but on posterior part of the cell. Such mastigonemes are called somatonemes.

List of Species

* '' P. brevifilia'' Aléxéieff 1946 * '' P. dolichomastix'' Künstler 1889 * '' P. chameleoni'' Krishnamurthy 1963 * '' P. ganapatii'' Saratchandra 1981 * '' P. grassei'' Saratchandra & Narasimhamurti 1980 * '' P. hareni'' (Ray & Singh 1949) * '' P. hystrixi'' Todd 1963 * '' P. kakatiyae'' Bhaskar Rao et al. 1978 * '' P. krishnamurthyi'' Saratchandra & Ramesh Babu 1982 * '' P. longifila'' (Lemmermann 1913) Grassé 1926 * '' P. mabuiae'' Saratchandra, Vijayanand & Venkateswarlu 1984 * '' P. ophisauri'' Chikovani 1970 * '' P. rattusi'' Kalavathi, Saratchandra & Sambasivarao 1983 * '' P. regnardi'' * '' P. sanjivei'' Grewal 1966 * '' P. steinii'' Ettl 1984 * '' P. uromastixi'' Janakidevi 1962 * '' P. waltairensis'' Saratchandra & Narasimhamurti 1980 * '' P. warangalensis'' Bhaskar Rao et al. 1978 * '' P. lacertae'' (Grassé 1882) * '' P. lacertae-viridis'' (Grassé 1879) Grassé 1926

References

Placidozoa Heterokont genera {{Heterokont-stub