Vampyrellida

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Harosa
Infraregnum: Rhizaria
Phylum: Cercozoa
Subphylum: Endomyxa
Ordo: Vampyrellida
Familia: Vampyrellidae - Leptophryidae
Genera: Gobiella - Hyalodiscus - Lateromyxa - Leptophrys - Penardia - Platyreta - Thalassomyxa - Theratromyxa - Vampyrella

Name

Vampyrellida G.S. West, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 29: 110. 1903

Similar groups

Aconchulina de Saedeleer, 1934, Deflandre, 1953
Aconchulinida Loeblich & Tappan, 1961
Aconchulinia Page, 1987, pro parte
Cristivesiculatida Page, 1987
Cristivesiculatia Cavalier-Smith, 1993

Alternative classifications

Patterson (1988)

Patterson, D. J. 1988. The evolution of Protozoa. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 83 (suppl. 1): 580–600, [1].

[Table 1. Major groups of protists distinguished by ultrastructural identity]

Vampyrellida sedis mutabilis
- Arachnula
- Vampyrella

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Class Filosea

Subclass Cristivesiculatia Page, 1987 stat. nov.
- Order Vampyrellida Starobogatov ex Krylov et al., 1980

David J. Patterson (1999)

From The Diversity of Eukaryotes

In Eukaryotes
Clade Vampyrellids

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, [2].

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)

References

West, G.S. (1901). On some British freshwater rhizopods and Heliozoa. J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 28: 308–342.

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