{{Short description|Genus of single-celled organisms}} {{hatnote|For the larger group which was named after this genus, see [[Katablepharid]]}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Kathablepharis | authority = Skuja 1939 | type_species = ''Katablepharis phoenikoston'' | type_species_authority = Skuja 1939 }}
'''''Kathablepharis''''' (alternative spelling '''''Katablepharis'''''<ref name="tolweb.org">{{Cite web|url=http://tolweb.org/Katablepharids/2413|title = Katablepharids}}</ref>) is a [[genus]] of [[single-cell organism|single-celled]] [[eukaryote]]s comprising five to six<ref name="clay">{{cite journal | pmid = 10724518 |date=Mar 1999 |author1=Clay, B |author2=Kugrens, P | title = Systematics of the enigmatic kathablepharids, including EM characterization of the type species, Katablepharis phoenikoston, and new observations on K. remigera comb.nov | volume = 150 | issue = 1 | pages = 43–59 | issn = 1434-4610 | journal = Protist | doi = 10.1016/S1434-4610(99)70008-8 }}</ref> [[species]]. They are [[heterotrophic]] and live in both [[freshwater]] and [[seawater]].<ref name="lee">{{cite journal | pmc = 372886 | journal = Microbiological Reviews | date = Dec 1992 | pages = 529–542 | volume = 56 | issue = 4 | title = Relationship between the flagellates and the ciliates |author1=Robert Edward Lee |author2=Paul Kugrens | doi = 10.1128/mr.56.4.529-542.1992 | pmid = 1480107 }}</ref> They have two [[flagella]] and a feeding apparatus consisting of a mouth and two arrays of [[microtubule]]s (one inside the other).<ref name="lee"/>
==Etymology== It derives its name from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''κατά (kata)'' (downwards) and ''βλεφαρίς (blepharis)'' ([[eyelash]]).<ref name="tolweb.org"/>
== Species ==
This is a partial list.
* ''[[Kathablepharis japonica|K. japonica]]'' <small>Okamoto & Inouye 2005</small><ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 16171184 |date=Aug 2005 |author1=Okamoto, N |author2=Inouye, I | title = The katablepharids are a distant sister group of the Cryptophyta: A proposal for Katablepharidophyta divisio nova/ Kathablepharida phylum novum based on SSU rDNA and beta-tubulin phylogeny | volume = 156 | issue = 2 | pages = 163–79 | issn = 1434-4610 | journal = Protist | doi = 10.1016/j.protis.2004.12.003 | doi-access = free }}</ref> * ''[[K. obesa]]'' <small>Barlow & Kugrens 2002</small> * ''[[K. tenuis]]'' <small>Barlow & Kugrens 2002</small> * ''[[K. hyalurus]]'' <small>Skuja 1939</small> * ''[[K. notonectoides]]'' <small>Skuja 1948</small> * ''[[K. oblonga]]'' <small>Skuja 1939</small> * ''[[K. ovalis]]'' <small>Skuja 1948</small><ref name="lee"/><ref name="lee2004">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1991.00505.x | year = 1991 | author = Lee, Robert Edward | journal = Journal of Phycology | volume = 27 | pages = 505–513 | last2 = Kugrens | first2 = Paul | title = Katablepharis Ovalis, A Colorless Flagellate with Interesting Cytological Characteristics1 | issue = 4 | s2cid = 86184221 }}</ref> * ''[[K. phoenikoston]]'' <small>Skuja 1939</small><ref name="clay" /> * ''[[K. remigera]]'' <small>(Vørs 1992) Clay & Kugrens 1999</small> [''Leucocryptos remigera'' <small>Vørs 1992</small><ref name="clay" />]
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Cryptista}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q6374988}}
[[Category:Katablepharida]] [[Category:Cryptista genera]] [[Category:Taxa named by Heinrichs Skuja]] [[Category:Taxa described in 1939]] {{Cryptista-stub}}