Phalansteriida

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Protozoa
Subregnum: Sarcomastigota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Subphylum: Protamoebae
Classis: Variosea
Ordo: Phalansteriida
Familia: Phalansteriidae

Name

Phalansteriida W.H. Jackson in Rolleston, Forms Anim. Life, ed. 2: 855. 1888 (“Phalansterina”)

Synonyms

Phalansteriida Hibberd, 1983 (isonym)

Alternative classifications

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

Order Phalansteriida Hibberd, 1983 -> Order Spongomonadida

References

• Hibberd, D.J. 1983. Ultrastructure of the colonial colourless zooflagellates Phalansterium digitatum Stein (Phalansteriida ord. nov.) and Spongomonas uvella Stein (Spongomonadida ord. nov.). Protistologica 19(4): 523–535.
• Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Ema E.-Y. Chao, Brian Oates, Molecular phylogeny of Amoebozoa and the evolutionary significance of the unikont Phalansterium, Europ. J. Protistol. 40, 21-48 (2004).

Vernacular names

français: Phalanstériides