Nucleariidae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Protozoa
Subregnum: Sarcomastigota
Phylum: Choanozoa
Classis: Cristidiscoidea
Ordo: Nucleariida
Familia: Nucleariidae
Genera: Nuclearia - ?Pinaciophora - Vampyrellidium

Name

Nucleariidae Cann & Page, 1979

Classifications

Mikrujkov (1999)

Mikrujkov, K. A. (1999). Taxonomic revision of scale-bearing heliozoon-like amoebae (Pompholyxophryidae, Rotosphaerida). Acta Protozoologica, 38, 119-131, [1].

• Rotosphaerida Rainer, 1968 (= Cristidiscoidida Page, 1987)
  • Family 1. Nucleariidae Cann et Page, 1979
    • Genus 1. Nuclearia Cienkowski,1865
    • Genus 2. Elaeorhanis Greeff, 1873
    • Genus 3. Leptophrys Hertwig et Lesser, 1874
    • Genus 4. Vampyrellidium Zopf, 1885

Patterson, Simpson, & Rogerson, in Lee et al. (2000)

Patterson, D.J., Simpson, A.G.B. & Rogerson, A., 2000. Amoebae of uncertain affinities. In: Lee, J.J., Leedale, G.F. & Bradbury, P. An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa. Society of Protozoologists/Allen Press: Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A, 2nd ed., vol. 2, p. 804-827, [2]. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [3], and Patterson, [4].

• In “protozoa”, “amoeboid protists”, “amoebae of uncertain affinities”
  • 47. Family Nucleariidae Cann & Page, 1979
    • 1. Genus Nuclearia Cienkowski, 1865
    • 2. Genus Pinaciophora Greeff, 1873
    • 3. Genus Pompholyxophrys Archer, 1869
    • 4. Genus Rabdiophrys Rainer, 1968
    • 5. Genus Vampyrellidium Zopf, 1885

References

• Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification - Class Cristidiscoidea - visited 4 December 2005
• Protist classification at micro*scope, May 2001. (CC)
• Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa, Europ. J. Protistol. 39, 338-348 (2003).