Rastrimonas

Rastrimonas is a monotypic genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa.

It contains the single species Rastrimonas subtilis.

It was described in 2002 from the free-living cryptomonad Chilomonas paramaecium and placed in the new genus Cryptophagus.

[1] The following year this was renamed Rastrimonas.

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