Cochliopodium

Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.
It has been found in eyewash stations.
It includes:C. actinophorum Page 1976

?C. ambiguum Penard 1904C. arabianum Tekle, Gorfu & Anderson 2015C. barki Kudryavtsev, Brown et Smirnov 2004C. bilimbosum Leidy 1879C. clarum Schaeffer 1926
?C. crassiusculum Penard 1905
?C. erinaceum Penard 1902C. gallicum Kudryavtsev & Smirnov 2006C. granulatum Penard 1890C. gulosum Schaeffer 1926C. kieliense Kudryavtsev 2006C. larifeili Kudriavtsev 1999C. maeoticum Kudryavtsev 2006C. megatetrastylus Anderson & Tekle 2013C. minus Page 1976C. minutoidum Kudryavtsev 2006
?C. minutum West 1901
?C. muscorum Wang 1977
?C. obscurum Pen.
?C. papyrum Bovee 1958C. pentatrifurcatum Tekle et al. 2013C. plurinucleolum Geisen et al. 2014
?C. radiosum Biernacka 1963
?C. silvaticum Varga 1935C. spiniferum Kudryavtsev 2004
?C. spumosum Penard 1904C. vestitum Archer 1877

Recombination and meiosis

The Cochliopodium genome includes genes whose functions are employed in the process of genetic recombination suggesting the possibility of a sexual stage. The genome sequence of Cochliopodium minus contains a complete set of genes necessary for meiosis a key stage of sexual reproduction.