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(3–4): 461–481. DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(81)90050-2. PMID 7337818. Reference page. 

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)

• Corliss, J.O. 1984. The kingdom Protista and its 45 phyla. Biosystems 17(2): 87–126. DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(84)90003-0 Reference page. 

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)

• Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993. Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla. Microbiological Reviews 57(4): 953–994. DOI: 10.1128/mr.57.4.953-994.1993 . PMID: 8302218 . Reference page. 

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

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