''Proleptomonas'' is a genus of coprophilic protists, containing the single species ''Proleptomonas faecicola''. It belongs to the phylum

Cercozoa Cercozoa (now synonymised with Filosa) is a phylum of diverse single-celled eukaryotes. They lack shared morphological characteristics at the microscopic level, and are instead united by phylogeny, molecular phylogenies of rRNA and actin or Ubiqu ...

, although it was previously considered the only free-living

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 ...

. It is the only member of family Proleptomonadidae.

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Rhizaria genera Taxa described in 1916 {{Cercozoa-stub