Leucodictyida
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Leucodictyids are heterotrophic amoeboid protists that comprise the order Leucodictyida in the phylum Cercozoa.[2]
Morphology
Leucodictyids are biciliate amoebae with branching filopodia that are capable of fusing temporarily with each other to form structures known as meroplasmodia. These filopodia can bear extrusomes, and are appressed to the substrate while supported in part by irregularly arranged microtubules. Inside the cell itself, an important characteristic is the presence of tubular mitochondrial cristae.[1]
Taxonomy
Leucodictyida was described in 1993 as a monotypic order containing only the family Leucodictyidae.[3] Later, in 2003, it was emended to also contain the family Massisteriidae.[1] It currently contains a total of 4 genera.
- Family Leucodictyidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993
- Leucodictyon Grell, 1991
- Reticulamoeba Grell, 1994
- Family Massisteriidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993
- Massisteria Larsen & Patterson, 1990
- Minimassisteria Arndt & Cavalier-Smith, 2011[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE (2003). "Phylogeny and Classification of Phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa)". Protist. 154 (3–4): 341–358. doi:10.1078/143446103322454112. ISSN 1434-4610.
- ↑ Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, Yabuki A, Ishida KI, Berney C, Pakzad U, Wylezich C, Cavalier-Smith T (2009). "Phylogeny of Novel Naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea Revised". Protist. 160 (1): 75–109. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.07.002. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 18952499.
- ↑ Cavalier-Smith T (September 1993). "The Protozoan Phylum Opalozoa". Eukaryotic Microbiology. 40 (5): 609–615. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1993.tb06117.x. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Howe; et al. (2011), "Novel Cultured Protists Identify Deep-branching Environmental DNA Clades of Cercozoa: New Genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia", Protist, 162 (2): 332–372, doi:10.1016/j.protis.2010.10.002, PMID 21295519
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