Sarcomastigophora

Sarcomastigophora
Protist
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Sarcomastigophora

The phylum Sarcomastigophora belongs to the Protist kingdom and it includes many unicellular or colonial, autotrophic, or heterotrophic organisms. The two main subphyla are Mastigophora and Sarcodina. A third is Opalinata.[1]

It is polyphyletic, and it is not a universally recognized classification. It places great significance upon method of locomotion in generating the taxonomy.

It can be described as kingdom Protista → phylum Sarcomastigophora → subphylum Mastigophora, or as phylum Protozoa → subphylum Sarcomastigophora → class Mastigophora.[2]

It gets its name from the combination of "Sarcodina" (which is an older term used for amoeboids)[3] and "Mastigophora" (which is an older term for flagellates).

See also

References

  1. ^ MeSH Sarcomastigophora
  2. ^ Dunster, Katherine; Dunster, Julian A. (1996). Dictionary of natural resource management. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp. 337. ISBN 0-7748-0503-X. 
  3. ^ Pawlowski J, Burki F (2009). "Untangling the phylogeny of amoeboid protists". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 56 (1): 16–25. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00379.x. PMID 19335771. 

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