{{Short description|Group of protists}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Rhipidodendron splendidum.jpg | image_caption = ''Rhipidodendron splendidum'' | parent_authority = Hibberd 1983 | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Spongomonadidae | authority = Karpov 1990 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Rhipidodendron'' * ''Spongomonas'' }}

The '''spongomonads''' are a group of flagellated protists in the phylum Cercozoa. Taxonomically, they compose the family '''Spongomonadidae''' and order '''Spongomonadida'''. They were originally placed among the Reticulofilosa,<ref name="Cercozoa2003"/> but were later transferred to Monadofilosa.<ref name="PhylumspecificCercozoa"/> It includes only two genera:<ref name="MultigeneRhizaria"/> *''Spongomonas'' {{au|Stein 1878}} *''Rhipidodendron'' {{au|Stein 1878}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Cercozoa2003">{{cite journal |author=Thomas Cavalier-Smith & Ema E.-Y. Chao |title=Phylogeny and classification of phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa) |journal=Protist |volume=154 |issue=3–4 |pages=341–358 |date=October 2003 |pmid=14658494 |doi= 10.1078/143446103322454112}}</ref>

<ref name="PhylumspecificCercozoa">{{cite journal |author=David Bass & Thomas Cavalier-Smith |title=Phylum-specific environmental DNA analysis reveals remarkably high global biodiversity of Cercozoa (Protozoa) |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=2393–2404 |date=November 2004 |pmid=15545489 |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.63229-0 |url=http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15545489|doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name="MultigeneRhizaria">{{cite journal|title=Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria|first1=Thomas|last1=Cavalier-Smith|first2=Ema E.|last2=Chao|first3=Rhodri|last3=Lewis|date=April 2018|journal=Protoplasma|volume=255|issue=5 |pages=1517–1574|doi=10.1007/s00709-018-1241-1|pmid=29666938|pmc=6133090}}</ref> }}

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{{Rhizaria}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q7579019}}

Category:Imbricatea {{Cercozoa-stub}}