Solenicola

Solenicola
Scientific classification
(unranked):	SAR
(unranked):	Halvaria
Superphylum:	Heterokonta
Phylum:	Bigyra
Class:	Nanomonadea
Order:	Uniciliatida
Family:	Solenicolidae Cavalier-Smith 2013
Genus:	Solenicola J. Pavillard 1916
Species:	S. setigera
Binomial name
Solenicola setigera J. Pavillard 1916

Solenicola setigera is a species of marine stramenopile, and the only species classified within the genus Solenicola.[1]

The species ranges between 4–7 μm in diameter and has a complex feeding strategy. Its ecological role within the marine planktonic food chain is generally as a grazer, feeding on photoautotrophic diatoms. It is a parasite of the species Leptocylindrus mediterraneus. S. setigera will grow on the frustule, the protective shell made of silica, of L. mediterraneus alongside the cyanobacteria Synechococcus, which it may also eat. S. setigera combines herbivorous grazing, parasitism, and predation into its survival strategy.[2]

In 2013, the genus was placed in the family Solenicolidae.[3]

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Solenicola J.Pavillard, 1916". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
2. Worden, Alexandra Z.; Follows, Michael J.; Giovannoni, Stephen J.; Wilken, Susanne; Zimmerman, Amy E.; Keeling, Patrick J. (13 February 2015). "Environmental science. Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes". Science. 347 (6223): 8. doi:10.1126/science.1257594. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 25678667.
3. Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Scoble, Josephine Margaret (August 2013). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.