Acinetactis

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Harosa
Infraregnum: Rhizaria
Phylum: Cercozoa
Class: Dimorphiellatea
Ordo: Dimorphiellida
Familia: Dimorphiellidae
Species: A. mirabilis

Name

Acinetactis A.Stokes, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23: 567. 23 Dec 1886.

Type species: Acinetactis mirabilis A.Stokes

Synonyms

• Dimorphiella Valkanov, Izv. Bulg. Bot. Druz. 1: 106. 1926, nec Dimorphiella Grinbergs, 1968 (Insecta)

• Type species: Dimorphiella elegans Valkanov

References

• Stokes, A.C. 1886. Notices of new fresh-water Infusoria. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23: 562–568. BHL Reference page. 
• Valkanov, A. (Вълкановъ, А.) 1926. Приносъ къмъ изучаване флагелатитѣ на България [Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Flagellaten von Bulgarian]. Izvestiya na Bulgarskoto Botanichesko Druzhestvo 1: 105–120. (Bulgarian) Google Books Reference page. 

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Alternative classifications

Hall (1953)

Hall, R. P. 1953. Protozoology. Prentice Hall, New York, [1].

Phylum Protozoa

• Subphylum Sarcodina
  • Class Actinopodea
    • Order Helioflagellida
      • Acinetactis, Actinomonas, Ciliophrys, Dimorpha, Dimorphella, Tetradimorpha

Davidson (1982)

Davidson, L. (1982). Ultrastructure, behavior, and algal flagellate affinities of the helioflagellate Ciliophrys marina, and the classificaion of the helioflagellates (Protista, Actinopoda, Heliozoa). J. Protozool., 29, 19-29.

Heliozoa

• Order Actinophryida
  • Suborder Ciliophryina ["helioflagellates"]
    • Ciliophrys
    • Actinomonas
  • [etc.]
• Order Centrohelida
  • Suborder Dimorphina ["helioflagellates"]
    • Dimorpha (= Dimorphella; = Acinetactis ?)
    • Tetradimorpha
  • [etc.]

Patterson (1993)

Patterson, D. J. 1993. The current status of the free-living heterotrophic flagellates. J. Euk. Microbiol. 40: 606–609.

"free-living heterotrophic flagellates"

• group B (taxa missing an ultrastructural identity)
  • Acinetactis

Patterson, Vørs, Simpson, & O'Kelly, in Lee et al. (2000)

Patterson, D.J., Vørs, N., Simpson, A.G.B. & O'Kelly, C., 2000. Residual Free-living and Predatory Heterotrophic Flagellates. In: Lee, J.J., Leedale, G.F. & Bradbury, P. An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa. Society of Protozoologists/Allen Press: Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A, 2nd ed., vol. 2, p. 1302-1328, [2]. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [3].

• In “protozoa”,
  • “flagellated protists”
    • “residual free-living and predatory heterotrophic flagellates”
      • 1. Genus Acinetactis Stokes, 1886

Bass et al. (2009)

Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, Yabuki A, Ishida K, Berney C, Pakzad U, Wylezich C & Cavalier-Smith T (2009). Phylogeny of novel naked filose and reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised. Protist 160: 75–109.

• Cercozoa
  • Class Granofilosea Cavalier-Smith and Bass cl. n
    • Order 5. Heliomonadida Cavalier-Smith, 1993 (= Dimorphida Siemensma, 1991)
      • Family 2. Acinetactidae Stokes, 1886 (Acinetactis, includes ‘Dimorphiella’)

Cavalier-Smith & Oates (2012)

Cavalier-Smith, T., & Oates, B. (2012). Ultrastructure of Allapsa vibrans and the body plan of Glissomonadida (Cercozoa). Protist, 163(2), 165-187.

Phylum Cercozoa Cavalier-Smith, 1998;

• Subphylum Filosa Cavalier-Smith, 2003
  • Infraphylum Monadofilosa Cavalier-Smith, 1997 stat. n.
    • Superclass 1. Eoglissa Cavalier-Smith, supercl. n.
      • Class 2. Sarcomonadea Cavalier-Smith, 1993
        • Order 2. Pansomonadida Vickerman, 2005
          • Suborder 2. Haptopodina Cavalier-Smith (in Yabuki et al. 2011)
            • Family 2. Acinetactidae Stokes, 1886 (Acinetactis)