Corallochytrium

Corallochytrium

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Protozoa
Subregnum: Sarcomastigota
Phylum: Choanozoa
Classis: Corallochytrea
Ordo: Corallochytriida
Familia: Corallochytriidae
Genus: Corallochytrium
Species: C. limacisporum

Name

Corallochytrium Raghu-Kumar, 1987

Alternative classification

Mendoza et al. (2002)

In Phylum Neomonada, Subphylum Mesomycetozoa
Class Corallochytrea
Genus Corallochytrium
Species:C. limacisporum

References

• Cavalier-Smith, T. 1995. Zooflagellate phylogeny and classification. Tsitologiya 37(11): 1010–1029. Reference page. 
• Cavalier-Smith, T. & Allsopp, M.T.E.P. 1996. Corallochytrium, an enigmatic non-flagellate protozoan related to choanoflagellates. European Journal of Protistology 32(3): 306–310. DOI: 10.1016/S0932-4739(96)80053-8 . Reference page. 
• Cavalier-Smith T. 2003. Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa. European Journal of Protistology 39: 338–348. DOI: 10.1078/0932-4739-00002 Reference page. 
• Leonel Mendoza, John W. Taylor, and Libero Ajello, (2002) The class Mesomycetozoea: a heterogeneous group of microorganisms at the animal-fungal boundary, Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 56, 315–44.
• Raghu-Kumar, S. 1987. Occurrence of the thraustochytrid, Corallochytrium limacisporum gen. et sp. nov. in the coral reef lagoons of the Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea. Botanica Marina 30(1): 83–89.