''Rictus'' is a genus of Bikosea, a small group of unicellular

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 ...

s, included among the

heterokont The stramenopiles, also called heterokonts, are protists distinguished by the presence of stiff tripartite external hairs. In most species, the hairs are attached to flagella, in some they are attached to other areas of the cellular surface, an ...

s. The only species in the genus is ''Rictus lutensis''.

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* Bikosea Stramenopile species Monotypic eukaryote genera Protists described in 2010 {{Heterokont-stub