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Ministeria

Ministeria vibrans
Ministeria vibrans catching bacteria.jpg
Ministeria vibrans catching a bacterium
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked): Holozoa
(unranked): Filozoa
Class: Filasterea
Order: Ministeriida
Family: Ministeriidae
Genus: Ministeria
Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993
Species: M. vibrans
Binomial name
Ministeria vibrans
Tong, 1997

Ministeria vibrans is a small single-celled eukaryote which feeds on bacteria. Although it is an opisthokont, it seems not to fit in any of the established opisthokont lineages such as choanoflagellates or animals. It might form the Filasterea group with Capsaspora, another opisthokont of uncertain placement. It is the only known opisthokont lineage which does not exhibit amoeboid cells or flagellated cells, having a spherical body.


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