Bodonida is an order of

kinetoplastid Kinetoplastida (or Kinetoplastea, as a class) is a group of flagellated protists belonging to the phylum Euglenozoa, and characterised by the presence of a distinctive organelle called the kinetoplast (hence the name), a granule containing a lar ...

flagellate A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella. The word ''flagellate'' also describes a particular construction (or level of organization) characteristic of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes and the ...

excavates. It contains the genera ''

Bodo Bodo may refer to: Ethnicity * Boro people, also called ''Bodo'', an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India * Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Boro people Culture an ...

'' and '' Rhynchomonas'', relatives to the parasitic trypanosomes. This order also contains the colonial genus '' Cephalothamnium''.

Taxonomy

Bodonida contains the following suborders and families: * Eubodonina * Neobodonina **

Bodonidae ''Bodo'' () is a genus of microscopic kinetoplastids, flagellate excavates first described in 1831 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. The genus is small, as it has recently been redefined to include only four species. ''Bodo'' includes free-livin ...

Bütschli, 1887 ** Neobodonidae ** Rhynchomonadidae * Parabodonina ** Cryptobiidae Vickerman ** Parabodonidae

Cavalier-Smith Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, Royal Society, FRS, Royal Society of Canada, FRSC, Natural Environment Research Council, NERC Professorial Fellow (21 October 1942 – 19 March 2021), was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Departme ...

References

Kinetoplastids Euglenozoa orders {{Excavata-stub