The first valid description (as
Monas lens) was published by
Otto Friedrich Müller in 1773. William Saville Kent placed it in the genus
Heteromita in 1880.
Edwin Klebs moved it to
Bodo in 1892, but this was rejected by H.M. Woodcock, who removed the species from
Bodo and made it the
type species of
Heteromastix.
David J. Patterson and
Michael Zölffel found Woodcock's description to be insufficient and established the genus
Kamera for
Kamera lens in 1991, creating a play on words in the binomial's resemblance to "camera lens". Due to lacking ultrastructural or molecular biological data, the species' rank is uncertain; thus it is placed as
incertae sedis in the
Eukaryota. This species has been provisionally placed in the
Ochrophyta. The taxonomy of this group is currently under revision so the position of the genus
Kamera should not be regarded as being settled at the moment. ==References==