Ancoracysta is a genus of eukaryotic microbes containing the species Ancoracysta twista, a predatory protist.
Ancoracysta is a genus of eukaryotic microbes containing the species Ancoracysta twista, a predatory protist.
==Description== Ancoracysta twista was first described in November 2017 in Current Biology. It was found in a sample collected from the surface of a tropical aquarium brain coral. It actively feeds on Procryptobia sorokini, probably immobilising its prey through discharging a previously unknown type of extrusome named an ancoracyst.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).