Wobblata

Biological taxa superclass

Wobblata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Bigyra
Infraphylum: Placidozoa
Superclass: Wobblata
Cavalier-Smith 2013[1]
Classes
  • Placididea
  • Nanomonadea
  • Opalomonadea

Wobblata is a paraphyletic grouping of all placidozoans except Opalinata. It unites the classes Placididea, Nanomonadea and Opalomonadea.[1]

Description

Members of this group are ancestrally aerobic phagotrophic biciliates.[1] They have tubular mitochondrial cristae and a hairy anterior cilium.[1] They have a split right microtubular root,[1] i.e. one of the two (left and right) microtubular roots that support the feeding groove is split in two.[2] They lack a cytopharynx, and some of them have lost their anterior cilium.[1]

Phylogeny

The cladogram shows the relationships between Wobblata and the rest of Opalozoans.[1]

Opalozoa
"Wobblata"

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Scoble, Josephine Margaret (2012). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.
  2. ^ Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Patterson, David J. (1999). "The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the "excavate hypothesis"". European Journal of Protistology. 35 (4): 353–370. doi:10.1016/S0932-4739(99)80044-3. ISSN 0932-4739.
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Wobblata*
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