Pelobiontida

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Protozoa
Subregnum: Sarcomastigota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Classis: Conosea
Infraphylum: Archamoebae
Classis: Archamoeba
Ordo: Pelobiontida
Familiae: Pelomyxidae - Entamoebidae

Name

Pelobiontida Page, 1976

Classifications

Brugerolle & Patterson, in Lee et al. (2000)

Brugerolle, G. & Patterson, D., 2000. Order Pelobiontida Page, 1976. 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. 1097-1103, [1]. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [2].

In “protozoa”, "ameboid & flagellated protists"

• Order Pelobiontida Page, 1976
  • Family Pelomyxidae Schulze, 1877
    • Genus Pelomyxa Greeff, 1874
    • Genus Mastigina Frenzel, 1897
  • Family Mastigamoebidae Goldschmidt, 1907
    • Genus Mastigamoeba Schulze, 1875
    • Genus Mastigella Frenzel, 1897
    • Genus Phreatamoeba Chávez et al., 1986

References

Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Ema E.-Y. Chao, Brian Oates, Molecular phylogeny of Amoebozoa and the evolutionary significance of the unikont Phalansterium, Europ. J. Protistol. 40, 21-48 (2004).