Dictyosteliida

Dictyosteliida

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Subphylum: Conosa
Infraphylum: Mycetozoa
Classis: Stelamoebea
Ordo: Dictyosteliida
Familiae: Acytosteliidae - Dictyosteliidae
Incertae sedis: Calospeira

Name

Dictyosteliida J.J.Lister in E.R. Lankester, Treat. Zool. 1(1): 65 (“Dictyosteliaceae”) (1909), emend. Olive, 1970

Similar groups

• Dictyostelia Lister 1909, emend. Olive 1970
• Dictyosteliomycota Edwards, 1976 [?]
• Dictyosteliomycetes Scagel, 1982 [?]
• Dictyostelea Cavalier-Smith, 1993 [?]
• Dictyostelida Cavender, 1990 [?]
• Dictyostela Hausmann & Hülsmann, 1996

Alternative classifications

Cavender in Margulis et al. (1990)

Cavender, J.C., 1990. 7. Phylum Dictyostelida. In: Margulis, L., J.O. Corliss, M. Melkonian, D.J. Chapman (ed.). Handbook of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, p. 88-101. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [1].

Kingdom Protoctista

• Section II: Phyla without flagellated stages, but with complex sexual cycles
  • Phylum 7. Dictyostelida
    • Class Dictyostelida

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Phylum Mycetozoa
Subphylum Dictyostelia Lister, 1909 stat. nov.
Class Dictyostelea Lister, 1909 stat. nov.

Cavalier-Smith (1998)

From A revised six-kingdom system of life

In Phylum Amoebozoa, Subphylum Conosa, Infraphylum Mycetozoa
Superclass Dictyostelia Lister, 1909 stat. nov.

David J. Patterson (1999)

From The Diversity of Eukaryotes

In Ramicristates, Centramoebae
Dictyosteliidae

Adl et al. (2012)

Adl, S.M. et al. (2012). The revised classification of eukaryotes. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 59 (5): 429–514, [2].

Eukaryota

• Amoebozoa Lühe, 1913, emend. Cavalier-Smith 1998 (= Eumycetozoa Zopf 1884, emend Olive 1975)
  • Dictyostelia Lister 1909, emend. Olive 1970
    • Acytostelium (P), Dictyostelium (P), Polysphondylium (P)
    • Incertae sedis Dictyostelia: Coenonia

References

• Baldauf, S.L., Strassmann, J.E. 2017. Dictyostelia. In: Archibald, J.M., Simpson, A.G.B., Slamovits, C. (Eds.) Handbook of the Protists. Springer, pp. 1-45. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6_14-1
• Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E.-Y. & Oates, B. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Amoebozoa and the evolutionary significance of the unikont Phalansterium. European Journal of Protistology 40(1): 21–48. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2003.10.001 Reference page.