Jakoba
| Jakoba | |
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| Four jakobid species, showing groove and flagella: Jakoba libera (ventral view), Stygiella incarcerata (ventral view), Reclinomonas americana (dorsal view), and Histiona aroides (ventral view) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Discoba |
| Class: | Jakobea |
| Order: | Jakobida |
| Suborder: | Histionina |
| Family: | Jakobidae Patterson, 1990 |
| Genus: | Jakoba Patterson, 1990 |
| Type species | |
| Jakoba libera (Ruinen, 1938) Patterson, 1990
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Jakoba is a genus in the taxon Excavata, and currently has a single described species, Jakoba libera described by Patterson in 1990, and named in honour of Dutch botanist (Algology, Myology and Lichenology) Jakoba Ruinen. (Previously described Jakoba incarcerata has been renamed Andalucia incarcerata, and Jakoba bahamensis /Jakoba bahamiensis is not formally described.)