Bikonta

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Bikonta
Cladi: Archaeplastida – Chromalveolata – Excavata – Rhizaria

Phyla(?) incertae sedis: Apusozoa – Heliozoa – Chromista – Telonemea

Note: List of cladi after Cavalier-Smith 2009: 28, Bikonts comprise three or four major groups, probably all clades: Apusozoa, probably the first diverging, Excavata, probably next diverging, Rhizaria, and corticates

Name

Bikonta Cavalier-Smith, 1993

Similar groups

Biciliata Cavalier-Smith, 1993
Photokaryotes Cavalier-Smith, 1999
Diaphoretickes Adl et al., 2012 [It excludes Excavata.]
Diphoda Derelle et al., 2015
Corticata Lankester, 1877, emend. Cavalier-Smith, 2015

References

Cavalier-Smith T., 1993. Kingdom protozoa and its 18 phyla. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Am Soc Microbiol.
Adl, S.M. et al. 2005. The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52: 399–451. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x PDF.
Burki, F., Shalchian-Tabrizi, K., Minge, M., Skjæveland, A., Nikolaev, S.I., Jakobsen, K.S. & Pawlowski, J. 2007. Phylogenomics reshuffles the eukaryotic supergroups. PLoS ONE 2 : e790. Ful article.
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1999. Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 46(4), 347–366, Abstract.
Cavalier-Smith, T. 2003. Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa. European Journal of Protistology 39: 338–348
Cavalier-Smith, T. 2009. Megaphylogeny, cell body plans, adaptive zones: causes and timing of eukaryote basal radiations. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 56: 26–33. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00373.x Abstract.

Vernacular names

English: Bikont
français: Bicontes, bicontes, biciliés
日本語: バイコンタ
македонски: Двокамшични
Türkçe: Çift kamçılı bir atasal canlıdan türeyenler
Tiếng Việt: Sinh vật hai lông roi

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