Heteromita

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cercomonadida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Chromista Subregnum: Harosa Infraregnum: Rhizaria Phylum: Cercozoa Subphylum: Filosa Superclassis: Monadofilosa Classis: Sarcomonadea Ordo: Cercomonadida

Familia: Heteromitidae
Genus: Heteromita

Name

Heteromita Dujardin, 1841

Synonyms (according to Myl’nikov & Karpov, 2004):

• Bodomorpha Hollande 1952
• Sciviamonas Ekelund et Patterson, 1997

References

• Ekelund F. and Patterson D.J. 1997. Some heterotrophic flagellates from a cultivated garden soil in Australia. Arch. Protistenk. 148, 4, 461-478

Classifications

Dujardin (1841)

• Dujardin, F. 1841. Histoire naturelle des Zoophytes, Infusoires, comprenant la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. pp. i–xii, 1–684. Paris: Roret. BHL Google Books Reference page. 

• Infusoires (Infusoria) [p. 126]
  • Infusoires non symétriques ou asymétriques
    • Ordre III. Animaux pourvus d'un ou de plusieurs filaments flagelliformes servant d'organes locomoteurs. — Sans bouche.
      • 1. Sans aucun tégument.
        • V. Famile. Monadiens (Monadina) [p. 270]
          • 8. Heteromita [p. 297]
            • 1. Heteromita ovata
            • 2. Heteromita granulum
            • 3. Heteromita angusta

Saville-Kent (1881)

• Saville-Kent, W. 1880-1881. A manual of the infusoria, including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. Vol. I. London: David Bogue. BHL Reference page. 

Sub-kingdom Protozoa [p. 36]

• Section A. Pantostomata
  • Class II. Flagellata [in part]
    • Order 11. Flagellata-Pantostomata
      • Family. IX. Heteromitidae, S. K. [p. 290]
        • Genus I. Heteromita, Dujardin
          • Heteromita lens, Müller sp.
          • Heteromita rostrata, S. K.
          • Heteromita uncinata, S. K.
          • Heteromita ovata, Duj.
          • Heteromita globosa, Stein
          • Heteromita exigua, Perty
          • Heteromita pusilla, Perty
          • Heteromita amyli, Cienkowski sp.
          • Heteromita sulcata, Mereschk.
          • Heteromita adunca, Mereschk.
          • Heteromita cylindrica, Mereschk.
        • Genus II. Colponema, Stein
        • Genus III Spiromonas, Perty
        • Genus IV. Phyllomitus, Stein

Mylnikov & Karpov (2004)

• Mylnikov, A.P. (Myl’nikov, A.P.) & Karpov, S.A. 2004. Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads. Protistology 3(4): 201–217. Cyberleninka PDF Reference page. 

• Order Cercomonadida Poche, 1913, em. Vickerman, 1983, em. Mylnikov, 1986
  • 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).

Howe et al. (2009)

Howe, A. T., Bass, D., Vickerman, K., Chao, E. E., & Cavalier-Smith, T. (2009). Phylogeny, taxonomy, and astounding genetic diversity of Glissomonadida ord. nov., the dominant gliding zooflagellates in soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa). Protist, 160(2), 159-189, [1].

• Euglenozoa
  • Heteromita Dujardin, 1841 ["originally included only two probable euglenozoans and one probably unidentifiable flagellate"]

Howe et al. (2011)

Howe, A. T., Bass, D., Chao, E. E., & Cavalier-Smith, T. (2011). New genera, species, and improved phylogeny of Glissomonadida (Cercozoa). Protist 162: 710–722.

• "Strain ATCC 50378 was erroneously named Heteromita triangularis Stokes"

References

• Ekelund F. and Patterson D.J. 1997. Some heterotrophic flagellates from a cultivated garden soil in Australia. Arch. Protistenk. 148, 4, 461-478