Phalansterium
Phalansterium is a genus of single-celled flagellated organisms comprising several species, which form colonies. Phalansterium produces tetraspores.
Phalansterium is hard to classify; it has a distinctive ultrastructure of its pericentriolar material. Molecular evidence places it in the Amoebozoa.
It has been suggested that it is similar to the ancestral eukaryote.
Species
Genus Phalansterium Cienkowsky 1870- Species Phalansterium arcticum Shmakova, Karpov & Smirnov 2018
- Species Phalansterium consociatum Cienkowsky 1870
- Species Phalansterium digitatum Stein 1878
- Species Phalansterium filosum Cavalier-Smith & Chao 2011
- Species Phalansterium intestinum Cienkowsky 1870
- Species Phalansterium solitarium Sandon 1924