''Neoparamoeba'' is a genus of

Amoebozoa Amoebozoa is a major Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of Amoeba, amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, Pseudopod#Morphology, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In trad ...

. Species contain intracellular

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 ...

parasites, of the genus ''

Perkinsela ''Perkinsela'' is a genus 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 kinetoplas ...

'', which are maintained in close contact with the nucleus and are considered obligatory and mutualistic.

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Amoebozoa genera Discosea {{Amoebozoa-stub