Voromonas

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Voromonas is a genus of predatory single-celled organisms within the alveolates. It has one known species, Voromonas pontica. The species was first described in 2000 as Colpodella pontica and renamed Voromonas pontica in 2004.

Classification:
- Domain: Eukaryota
- Clade: Sar
- Superphylum: Alveolata
- Phylum: Chromerida
- Class: Colpodellophyceae
- Order: Colpodellida
- Family: Colpodellaceae
- Genus: Voromonas
- Species: Voromonas pontica

About its body and feeding:
- The anterior end has a rostrum containing a microtubular structure called the pseudoconoid. The pseudoconoid forms an open cone and lies next to microtubular bands, micronemes, and rhoptries. It starts near the flagella’s kinetosomes and extends into the rostrum.
- When preying, the rostrum is inserted into the prey and the cytoplasm is sucked out.

Feeding and prey:
- Prey: bodonids, chrysomonads, percolomonads.
- Non-prey (organisms it does not feed on): naked amoebas, ciliates, cryptomonads, and colorless euglenoids.