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Trichomonas
Description | Trichomonas is a genus of anaerobic excavate parasites of vertebrates. It was first discovered by Alfred François Donné in 1836 when he found these parasites in the pus of a patient suffering from vaginitis, an inflammation of the vagina. Donné named the genus from its morphological characteristics. The prefix tricho- originates from the Ancient Greek word θρίξ (thrix) meaning hair, describing Trichomonas’s flagella. The suffix -monas (μονάς – single unit), describes its similarity to unicellular organisms from the genus Monas. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichomonas, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Trichomonas | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Trichomonas Donné, 1836 | |||||||
Name Published In | Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, 3: 386 | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichomonas |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Trichomonas vaginalis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1447 Trichomonas Donne, 1836 (Protista, Mastigophora): spelling confirmed.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44, 201 (1987) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!