Bigyromonad
| Bigyromonad | |
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| Light and transmission electron microscopy images of Develorapax marinus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Clade: | Pseudofungi |
| Phylum: | Bigyromonadea Cavalier-Smith, 1997 |
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Bigyromonads (formally known as Bigyromonadea or Bigyromonada) are a lineage of single-celled non-photosynthetic stramenopiles that contains two distinct groups: Developea, free-living phagotrophic predators, and Pirsoniales, parasitoids of diatoms.