Vampyrellidae

Vampyrella lateritia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Vampyrellida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: Tsar Cladus: Sar Infraregnum: Rhizaria Phylum: Endomyxa Ordo: Vampyrellida

Familia: Vampyrellidae
Genera: Thalassomyxa – Vampyrella

Name

Vampyrellidae Gobi, Nizsh. Spor. Rast. Gloeoph. 4 (1883)(“Vampyrelleae”), pro bot. fam.

References

Primary references

• Gobi, C. (Гоби, Х.Я.) 1883. Нисшiя споровыя растенiя или Глёофиты (Gloeophytae) [Lower Spore Plants or Gloeophytae]. St.-Petersburg: tipo-litografija S. V. Sheperdson. (Russian) Google Books Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gobi, C. (Гоби, Х.Я.) 1916 ["1915"]. Монографiя семейства Vampyrellaceae [Monographie de la famille des Vampyrellacées]. Botanicheskiya zapiski 15: iii–v, 1–463. (Russian) Google Books Reference page. 
• Zopf, F.W. 1885. Zur Morphologie und Biologie der niederen Pilzthiere (Monadinen), zugleich ein Beitrag zur Phytopathologie. Verlag von Veit & Comp., Leipzig. [i]–v + 1–45 + pls. I–V. BHL Reference page. 
• Berney, C., Romac, S., Mahe, F., Santini, S., Siano, R., & Bass, D. 2013. Vampires in the oceans: predatory cercozoan amoebae in marine habitats. The ISME Journal 7: 2387–2399.

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Alternative classifications

Grassé et al. (1953)

Grassé, P.-P. (Ed.). Traité de Zoologie. Vol. 1.2, Protozoaires: Rhizopodes, Actinopodes, Sporozoaires, Cnidosporidies, 1953. Masson, Paris, [1], [2], [3].

Règne animal

• Phylum Protozoa
  • Subphylum Actinopoda
    • Class Heliozoa [par Trégoubouff]
      • Pseudo-Heliozoa
        • Order Protomyxidea
          • Family Azoosporidae (= Vampyrellidae)

Page (1987)

• Page, F.C. 1987. The classification of ‘naked’ amoebae (Phylum Rhizopoda). Archiv für Protistenkunde 133: 199–217. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9365(87)80053-2 Reference page. 

Phylum Rhizopoda von Siebold, 1845

• Class 6. Filosea Leidy, 1879
  • Subclass 1. Aconchulinia de Saedeleer, 1934
    • Order 2. Cristivesiculatida n. ord.
      • Family 1. Vampyrellidae Zopf, 1885
        • Representative genus: Vampyrella

Alimov et al. (2000)

Alimov, A. F. (ed.) 2000. Protista 1: Handbook on zoology. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2000, 679 pp. (in Russian, with English summaries), [4].

Protists

• Phylum Rhizopoda Siebold, 1845
  • Class Filosea Leidy, 1879
    • Subclass Aconchulinia de Saedeleer, 1934
      • Order Cristivesiculatida Page, 1987
        • Family Vampyrellidae Zopf, 1885

Patterson, Simpson, & Rogerson, in Lee et al. (2000)

Patterson, D.J., Simpson, A.G.B. & Rogerson, A., 2000. Amoebae of uncertain affinities. 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. 804-827, [5]. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [6], and Patterson, [7].

• In “protozoa”
  • “amoeboid protists”
    • “amoebae of uncertain affinities”
      • 63. Family Vampyrellidae
        • 1. Genus Arachnula Cienkowski, 1876
        • 2. Genus Gobiella Cienkowski, 1881
        • 3. Genus Hyalodiscus Hertwig & Lesser, 1874 [also in "gymnamoebae"]
        • 4. Genus Lateromyxa Hülsmann, 1993
        • 5. Genus Vampyrella Leidy, 1879
        • 6. Genus Vampyrelloides Schepotieff, 1912

Doweld (2001)

• Doweld, A.B. 2001. Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum. Tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta) [Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum. Опыт системы сосудистых растений]. LXXX + 110 pp. Moscow: Geos. ISBN 5-89118-283-1. Фундаментальная электронная библиотека «Флора и фауна» DJVU Google Books Reference page. 

Regnum Amoebobiota Doweld, 2001

Subregnum Amoebobiotina L.S. Dillon, 1963

• Phylum Vampyrellozoa Doweld, 2001
  • Class Vampyrellatea Doweld, 2001
    • Subclass Vampyrellatinea Doweld, 2001
      • Order Vampyrellida G.S. West, 1903
        • Family Vampyrellidae Gobi, 1883

Bass et al. (2009)

Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, Yabuki A, Ishida K, Berney C, Pakzad U, Wylezich C & Cavalier-Smith T (2009). Phylogeny of novel naked filose and reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised. Protist 160: 75–109.

Cercozoa

• Subphylum Endomyxa Cavalier-Smith 2002 emend
  • Class 1. Proteomyxidea* Lankester, 1885 emend.
    • Order 2. Aconchulinida De Saedeleer, 1934 emend.
      • Family 1. Vampyrellidae Zopf, 1885 (e.g. Vampyrella, Arachnula, Platyreta, Lateromyxa, Theratromyxa)

Hess et al. (2012)

Hess, S., Sausen, N., Melkonian, M. (2012). Shedding Light on Vampires: The Phylogeny of Vampyrellid Amoebae Revisited. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31165.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031165, [8].

• Endomyxa
  • Order Vampyrellida West, 1901 emend. (Genera included: Gobiella, Hyalodiscus, Lateromyxa, Leptophrys, Platyreta, Theratromyxa, Vampyrella)
    • Family Vampyrellidae Zopf, 1885 emend. (Genera included: Vampyrella)
    • Family Leptophryidae Hess, Sausen et Melkonian fam. nov. (Type genus: Leptophrys; Other genera included: Theratromyxa, Platyreta)