Polymastigidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Oxymonadida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Protozoa Subregnum: Eozoa Infraregnum: Excavata Phylum: Metamonada Subphylum: Anaeromonada Classis: Anaeromonadea Ordo: Oxymonadida

Familia: Polymastigidae
Genera (7): Blattamonas - Brachymonas - Monocercomonoides - Polymastix - Streblomastix - ?Paranotila - ?Tubulimonoides

Name

Polymastigidae Buetschli in Bronn’s Kl. Ordn. Thier-Reichs 1: 842 (1884) (“Polymastigina”)

Alternative botanical spelling: Polymastigaceae

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
• Monocercomonoididae Honigb. in Ludvík, Lom & Vávra, Progr. Protozool. Proc. I Inter. Congr. Protozool. Prague 1961: 68 (1964)

Alternative botanical spelling: Monocercomonoidaceae

• Streblomastigidae Kofoid & Swezy, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 20: 15 (1919)

Alternative botanical spelling: Streblomastigaceae

References

Primary references

• Bütschli, O. 1883–1887. Protozoa. Band 1. II. Abteilung: Mastigophora. In: Dr. H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. [1883: pp. 617–784; 1884: pp. 785–864; 1885: pp. 865–1088; 1887: pp. 1089–1097.] Leipzig: C.F. Winter. BHL Reference page. 
• Kofoid, C.A. & Swezy, O. 1919. Studies on the parasites of the Termites. I. On Streblomastix strix, a polymastigote flagellate with a linear plasmodial phase. University of California Publications in Zoology 20(1): 1–20. BHL Reference page. 
• Honigberg, B.M. 1964 ["1963"]. A contribution to systematics of the non-pigmented flagellates. In: Ludvík J., Lom J., Vávra J. (Eds), Progress in Protozoology, Proceedings of the First International Congress on Protozoology held in Prague, August 22-31, 1961. Prague: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 68–69. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kussakin, O.G. (Кусакин, О.Г.) & Drozdov, A.L. (Дроздов, А.Л.) 1998. Филема органического мира (Phylema of the living beings). Часть 2. Прокариоты и низшие евкариоты (Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes: Microsporobiontes, Archemonadobiontes, Euglenobiontes, Myxobiontes, Rhodobiontes, Alveolates, Heterokontes). - Санкт-Петербург : "Наука", С.-Петербургская издательская фирма. - 381 с. : ил. (Russian) Google Books ISBN 502026018  Reference page. 
• Cavalier-Smith, T. 2003. The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1741–1758. DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0 Reference page.