Kinetoplastea

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Bikonta
Cladus: Excavata
Superphylum: Discicristata
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Subphylum: Saccostoma
Classis: Kinetoplastea
Ordines: Bodonida - Trypanosomatida

References

• Thomas Cavalier-Smith, The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa, Internat. Journal of Syst. and Evol. Microbiol. 53, 1741-1758 (2003).
• Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa, Europ. J. Protistol. 39, 338-348 (2003).

Alternative classifications

John O. Corliss (1984)

From The kingdom Protista and its 45 phyla

In Kingdom Protista, Assemblage "Euglenozoa"
Phylum Kinetoplastidea Honigberg, 1963

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Phylum Euglenozoa
Subphylum Kinetoplasta Honigberg, 1963 stat. nov.
Class Kinetoplastea Honigberg, 1963 emend. Vickerman, 1976 stat. nov. Margulis, 1974

• Order Bodonida
• Order Trypanosome

Cavalier-Smith (1998)

From A revised six-kingdom system of life

In Phylum Euglenozoa, Subphylum Saccostoma
Class Kinetoplastea Honigberg, 1963 stat. nov. Margulis, 1974