Cercomonadida

Cercomonadida sp.

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Harosa
Infraregnum: Rhizaria
Phylum: Cercozoa
Subphylum: Filosa
Superclassis: Monadofilosa
Classis: Sarcomonadea
Ordo: Cercomonadida
Familiae: Cercomonadidae – ?Heteromitidae

Name

Cercomonadida Poche, Arch. Protistenk. 30: 139. 1913 (“Cercomonadidea”).

References

Primary references

• Poche, F. 1913. Das System der Protozoen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 30: 125–321. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Cavalier-Smith, Thomas & E.-Y. Chao, Ema. Phylogeny and classification of phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa), Protist 154, 341-358 (2003).
• Cavalier-Smith, Thomas. Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa, Europ. J. Protistol. 39, 338-348 (2003).
• Grassé, P.-P. (Ed.), 1952. Traité de Zoologie. Vol. 1.1, Protozoaires: Flagellés, 1952. Masson, Paris.
• Honigberg, B.M. (Chairman and Rapporteur) 1984. Phylogenetic relationships among protozoa (A round-table discussion), in Progress in Protozoology. VI Cong. Protozool., Warsaw, Poland, July 1981, [1].
• Mylnikov, A.P. (1986). Biology and ultrastructure of ameboid flagellates from the Cercomonadina ord. nov. Zool. Zh. 65: 683- 692 (in Russian), [2].

Vernacular names

English: Cercomonads

Alternative classifications

Lee et al. (1985)

J.J. Lee, S.H. Hutner and E.C. Bovee, (eds.), An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa, Society of Protozoologists, 1st ed., 1985, [3].

Subkingdom Protozoa (Goldfuss, 1818) von Siebold, 1846

• Phylum Sarcomastigophora Honigberg & Balamuth, 1963

• Subphylum Mastigophora Diesing, 1866

• Class Zoomastigophorea Calkins, 1909

• Order Cercomonadida Vickerman

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Class Heteromitea, Subclass Sarcomonadia, Superorder Jakobidea
Order Cercomonadida Poche, 1913 emend. Grassé, 1952

• Cercomonas
• Heteromita
• Massisteria
• Discocelis

David J. Patterson (1999)

From The Diversity of Eukaryotes

In Eukaryotes
Clade Cercomonads

• Cercomonas
• Massisteria
• Bodomorpha
• Heteromita

Mikrjukov (2000)

Mikrjukov, K. A. (2000). Taxonomy and phylogeny of heliozoa. II. The order Dimorphida Siemensma, 1991 (Cercomonadea classis n.): Diversity and relatedness with cercomonads. Acta Protozoologica, 39(2), 99-116, [4].

• Phylum Sarcomonadea Cavalier-Smith, 1993, stat. n.
  • Class Mycetozoea de Bary, 1873
  • Class Thaumatomonadea Cavalier-Smith, 1993, stat. n.
  • Class Thecomonadea Cavalier-Smith, 1993, stat. n.
  • Class Cercomonadea classis n.
    • Order Cercomonadida Poche, 1913
    • Order Dimorphida Siemensma, 1991
      • Genus Dimorpha Gruber, 1882
      • Genus Tetradimorpha Hsiung, 1927
    • Order Desmothoracida Hertwig et Lesser, 1874
    • Order Gymnosphaerida Poche, 1913;
• Flagellata incertae sedis
  • Genus Pseudodimorpha gen. n.

Myl’nikov & Karpov (2004)

Myl’nikov, A. P., & Karpov, S. A. (2004). Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads. Protistology 3 (4), 201-217, [5].

• Order Cercomonadida Poche, 1913, em. Vickerman, 1983, em. Mylnikov, 1986
  • Family Cercomonadidae Kent, 1880 (= Cercobodonidae Hollande, 1942) emend.
    • Genus Cercomonas Dujardin, 1841 (= Dimastigamoeba Blochmann, 1894 = Prismatomonas Massart, 1920 = Reptomonas Kent, 1880 = Genus Cercomastix Lemmermann, 1914 = Cercobodo Krassiltschik, 1886 = Dimorpha Klebs, 1892).
    • Genus Helkesimastix Woodcock et Lapage, 1914.
  • Family Heteromitidae Kent, 1880 emend. Mylnikov, 2000 (= Bodomorphidae Hollande, 1952)
    • Genus Heteromita Dujardin, 1841 emend. Mylnikov et Karpov (= Bodomorpha Hollande 1952, = Sciviamonas Ekelund et Patterson, 1997).
    • Genus Protaspis Skuja, 1939
    • Genus Allantion Sandon, 1924
    • Genus Sainouron Sandon, 1924
    • Genus Cholamonas Flavin et al. 2000
    • Genus Katabia Karpov et al. 2003
• Excluded genera
  • Genus Proleptomonas Woodcock, 1916
  • Genus Massisteria Larsen and Patterson, 1988

Bass et al. (2009)

Bass, D., Howe, A. T., Mylnikov, A. P., Vickerman, K., Chao, E. E., Smallbone, J. E., Snell, J., Cabral Jr, C. & Cavalier-Smith, T. (2009). Phylogeny and classification of Cercomonadida (Protozoa, Cercozoa): Cercomonas, Eocercomonas, Paracercomonas, and Cavernomonas gen. nov. Protist, 160(4), 483-521, [6].

• Order Cercomonadida
  • Family Cercomonadidae
    • Genus Cercomonas
    • Genus Eocercomonas
    • Genus Cavernomonas
    • Genus Paracercomonas