Bikonta

Peridinea (cladus Chromalveolata)

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Protista
Supergroup: Bikonta
Cladi: Archaeplastida - Chromalveolata - Excavata - Rhizaria - incertae sedis

Name

Bikonta Cavalier-Smith, 1993

Similar groups

• Biciliata Cavalier-Smith, 1993
• Photokaryotes Cavalier-Smith, 1999
• Diaphoretickes Adl et al., 2012 [It excludes Excavata.]
• Diphoda Derelle et al., 2015
• Corticata Lankester, 1877, emend. Cavalier-Smith, 2015

Notes

• [list of cladi after Cavalier-Smith (2009: 28, 'Bikonts comprise three or four major groups, probably all clades: Apusozoa, probably the first diverging, Excavata, probably next diverging, Rhizaria, and corticates')]

Vernacular names

English: Bikont
français: Bicontes, bicontes, biciliés
македонски: Двокамшични
日本語: バイコンタ
Tiếng Việt: Sinh vật hai lông roi
Türkçe: Çift kamçılı bir atasal canlıdan türeyenler

References

• Adl, S.M. et al. (2005) The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52: 399–451. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x PDF
• Burki, F.; Shalchian-Tabrizi, K.; Minge, M.; Skjæveland, A.; Nikolaev, S.I.; Jakobsen, K.S.; Pawlowski, J. (2007) Phylogenomics reshuffles the eukaryotic supergroups. PLoS ONE, 2 : e790. [1]
• Cavalier-Smith, T. (1999). Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 46(4), 347-366, [2].
• Cavalier-Smith, T. (2003) "Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa". European Journal of Protistology 39 :338-348
• Cavalier-Smith, T. (2009) Megaphylogeny, cell body plans, adaptive zones: causes and timing of eukaryote basal radiations. Journal of eukaryotic microbiology 56: 26–33. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00373.x Abstract

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