Kurnaimonas Lee nov. gen.

Diagnosis: Biflagellated colourless protists of unknown affinities. Body rigid and flattened with ventral depression subapically. Both flagella inserting into ventral depression. One flagellum directed anterior-laterally, the other trailing. Move by swimming.

Type species: Kurnaimonas celeris nov. spec.

Etymology: ‘Kurnai’ is a collective name for five aboriginal tribes in the Gippsland area.