Auranticordis

Taxobox
name = "Auranticordis"
domain = Eukaryota
unranked_phylum = Rhizaria
phylum = Cercozoa
genus = "Auranticordis"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "A. quadriverberis"

"Auranticordis" is a genus of marine meiofaunal amoeboflagellates. The sole known species, "Auranticordis quadriverberis", is a heart shaped cell with four flagellae. It contains orange inclusions which may be cyanobacterial endosymbionts. [cite journal | title = Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a marine interstitial tetraflagellate with putative endosymbionts: "Auranticordis quadriverberis" n. gen. et sp. (Cercozoa) | author = Chitchai Chantangsi |coauthors=Heather J Esson and Brian S Leander| url = | journal = BMC Microbiology| year = 2008 | volume = 8 | pages = 123 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2180-8-123]

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