Discicristata

Discicristata
Discicristata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Excavata
(unranked): Discicristata
Phyla

Discicristata is a proposed eukaryotic clade.

It consists of Euglenozoa plus Percolozoa.[1]

It was proposed that Discicristata plus Cercozoa yielded Cabozoa.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (November 2003). "The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53 (Pt 6): 1741–58. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0. PMID 14657102. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=14657102. 
  2. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (1999). "Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46 (4): 347–66. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04614.x. PMID 18092388.