Pelobiontida

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Subphylum: Conosa
Infraphylum: Archamoebae
Classis: Archamoeba
Ordo: Pelobiontida
Familiae: Rhizomastigidae – Pelomyxidae – Entamoebidae

Name

Pelobiontida C.N.Page, 1976

Synonyms

Pelomyxida Starobogatov, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 94: 126. 1981 ['1980'].

Classifications

Brugerolle & Patterson, in Lee et al. (2000)

Brugerolle, G. & Patterson, D. 2000. Order Pelobiontida Page, 1976. 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. 1097–1103, Google Books. See Brands, S.J. (1989–2015), [1]

In “protozoa”, "ameboid & flagellated protists"

• Order Pelobiontida Page, 1976
  • Family Pelomyxidae Schulze, 1877
    • Genus Pelomyxa Greeff, 1874
    • Genus Mastigina Frenzel, 1897
  • Family Mastigamoebidae Goldschmidt, 1907
    • Genus Mastigamoeba Schulze, 1875
    • Genus Mastigella Frenzel, 1897
    • Genus Phreatamoeba Chávez et al., 1986

References

• 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.