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Phalansterium

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Domain
  
Eukaryota

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Genus

Similar
  
Apusomonas, Conosa, Fonticula, Malawimonas, Filasterea

Phalansterium is a genus of single-celled organisms comprising several species. Phalansterium produces tetraspores.

Phalansterium is hard to classify; it has a distinctive ultrastructure of its pericentriolar material. Molecular evidence places it in the Amoebozoa.

It has been suggested that it is similar to the ancestral eukaryote.

References

Phalansterium Wikipedia