Proterozoa

Name

Proterozoa Cavalier-Smith, 1981

Similar groups

• Protomonadina Blochmann, 1895

Classifications

Cavalier-Smith (1981)

Cavalier-Smith, T. (1981). Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine?. Biosystems, 14(3), 461-481, [1].

Seven eukaryote kingdoms proposal [p. 478]

• Superkingdom Eukaryota
  • Kingdom Protozoa
    • Phylum Proterozoa (proteromonads, cyathobodonids, Opalinida)
    • Phylum Dinozoa (dinoflagellates)
    • Phylum Parabasalia (trichomonads and hypermastigids)
    • Phylum Metamonadina (retortomonads, diplomonads, and oxymonads)
    • Phylum Sporozoa (cregarines, coccidlans, and piroplasms)
    • Phylum Infusoria (Ciliophora)
    • Phylum Foraminifera
    • Phylum Sarcodina (amoebae, amoeboflagellates, slime moulds (Mycetozoa), Radiolaria, Heliozoa, Acantharia, Myxosporea, Microsporea)

John O. Corliss (1984)

From The kingdom Protista and its 45 phyla [2].

Kingdom Protista Haeckel, 1866

• Assemblage VIII. The chromobionts
  • Incertae sedis:
    • Phylum Proteromonadea Grassé in Grassé, 1952 (syns. Proterozoa p.p.; perhaps Protomastigida p.p. and Protomonadina p.p. auctt.)
      • Genera Apusomonas, Cercomonas, Cladomonas, Cochlosoma, Colponema, Cyathobodo, Gyromitus, Isonema, Karotomorpha, Nephromyces(?), Phalansterium, Proteromonas, Pseudodendromonas, Reckertia, Rhipidodendron, Spongomonas

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Phylum Opalozoa
Subphylum Proterozoa Cavalier-Smith, 1981 emend. stat. nov. 1993

• Class Heteromitea
• Class Telonemea
• Class Cyathobodonea
• Class Ebridea
• Class Phytomyxea