Trimastix


Selected references

Brugerolle G, Patterson D. 1997. Ultrastructure of Trimastix convexa Hollande, an amitochondriate anaerobic flagellate with a previously undescribed organization. European Journal of Protistology 33: 121-130. Abstract (local)

Calaway WT, Lackey JB. 1962. Waste Treatment Protozoa: Flagellata. Florida Engineering Series No. 3, Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station, Gainesville, FL, 140 pp. [Trimastix pyriformis listed as a wastewater species, under the name Tetramitus pyriformis]

Cavalier-Smith T. 1996/1997. Amoeboflagellates and mitochondrial cristae in eukaryote evolution: megasystematics of the new protozoan subkingdoms Eozoa and Neozoa. Archiv für Protistenkunde 147: 237-258 [this paper gives arguments for placing Trimastix with the Parabasalia in the group "Trichozoa"]

Cavalier-Smith T. 1998. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 73: 203-266. Abstract via NCBI PubMed [revises the classification given in the previous paper]

Grassé PP. 1952. Ordre des Trichomonadines. In Grassé PP (ed) Traité de Zoologie, vol. 1, fasc. 1. Masson, Paris, p 704. [description of T. convexa]

Kent WS. 1880-1882. Manual of the Infusoria: flagellate, ciliate and tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and foreign, vol. 1, pp. 310-315. [description of T. marina]

O'Kelly CJ, Farmer MA, Nerad TA. 1999. Ultrastructure of Trimastix pyriformis (Klebs) and similarities of Trimastix species with retortamonads and jakobids. Protist 150: 149-162. Abstract via NCBI PubMed | Full Text (PDF file @150 dpi; 12 Mb; PDF file @300 dpi; 45 Mb)


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