Protaspis

Protaspis is a genus of heterotrophic flagellates from the group of Cercomonadida.

Features

The cell body has a fixed shape, the two non- beating, unequal length flagella to put subapical on the ventral side of the cell. The cells are flattened dorsoventral, on the ventral side, there is a pit. The pseudopodia are formed from this pit out, serve the food. The nucleus often has a cell cap.

Nutrition

Feeding takes phagotroph with the help of pseudopodia. Protaspis verrucosa is able to catch small cells of Goldmonaden and Bodoniden.

System

The genus includes after Mylnikov and Karpov (2004) in the following ways:

  • Protaspis gemmiferum
  • Protaspis glans, the type species
  • Protaspis maior
  • Protaspis metarhiza
  • Protaspis obliqua
  • Protaspis obovata
  • Protaspis simplex
  • Protaspis tegere
  • Verrucosa protaspis

Documents

  • Alexander P. Mylnikov, Serguei A. Karpov: Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads. Protistology, Volume 3, 2004, pp. 201-217. ISSN 1680-0826
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