Malawimonas
Similar genera
Jakobids:
Jakoba (marine, flattened
mitochondrial cristae)
Histiona (lorica
without spine scales, posterior "sail" formed by right ventral cytoplasmic
vane, tubular mitochondrial cristae)
Reclinomonas (lorica with spine
scales, tubular mitochondrial cristae)
Retortamonads:
Retortamonas (larger, anoxic
habitats, no mitochondria, multiple vanes on posterior flagellum)
Chilomastix
(quadriflagellate, otherwise as for Retortamonas).
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