Carpediemonas

Carpediemonas membranifera is a free-living, meeresbewohnende Protistenart, which belongs to the group of Carpediemonas -like organisms of fornicata. She is the only representative of its genus.

Features

Carpediemonas are 3-14 micrometers long. They have two flagella, whose rear is significantly longer and passes through a wide lateral groove in which they approach swirls food and dreigeflügelt is star-shaped in cross section. There are three centrioles present. It is a Diktyosom available. The Golgi apparatus has no special features.

In Carpediemonas lack mitochondria. However, one of the organelles has no known function: It is surrounded by two membranes and cristae missing much, maybe it involves a mitochondrion to the homologous structure, similar to a hydrogenosome.

Way of life

Carpediemonas live freely floating in oxygen- poor marine habitats of subtropical to tropical waters, yet they were found off Australia, Brazil and Korea. They are often found associated with Kipferlia Bialata.

System

The genus was first described in 1996 and placed directly within the fornicata as the only sister taxon of Eopharyngia. Two species have been described, one of which, however, Carpediemonas Bialata, has now been placed in a separate genus as Kipferlia Bialata.