Clades for Kingdom PROTISTA
Condensed greatly from Tree of Life for taxa from Kingdom Protista covered in Zool250
BASAL EUKARYOTA
(P/B refers to Pearse/Pearse/Buchsbaum/Buchsbaum, 1987, Living Invertebrates)
=================== Diplomonads (P/B phylum Metamonadida, zooflagellate,Giardia) | | =================================== TO CROWN EUKARYOTES ===> <<=E=| ======| | | |======== Entamoebae (P/B phylum Amoebozoa); rhizopod sarcodine (Amoeba) | | | =Mt=| ========= Granuloreticulosa; foraminifera | | =Cp= Euglenida; phytoflagellate (Euglena) =Euglenozoa| ==== Kinetoplastida; zooflagellate (Trypanosoma
E= eukaryote traits (mitosis, membrane-bound organelles including: nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus?, lysosomes?) Mt= mitochondria Cp= chloroplast |
CROWN EUKARYOTES (condensed greatly from Tree of Life on WWW)
=======BGM========================================= TO METAZOA ===> =DCh=| ==| === Choanoflagellata; zooflagellate | | | ===M==== Fungi (mushrooms, molds, yeast, etc.) ===| | Cp | | ======= Chlorophyceae (unicellular green algae); phytoflagellate (Chlamydamonas, Volvox) | |==| | | ==M==== Embryophytes (land plants) | | | =====M==== Rhodophyta (red algae) | | ==N==== Ciliophora (Paramecium, Stentor, Spirostoma) <<===| | | ===| =Cp= Dinoflagellata; phytoflagellate | | ===| ===| ==== Euapicomplexa (P/B phylum Apicomplexa, sporozoan, Plasmodium) Cp |====M==== Stramenopiles (incl. P/B phylum Diatomae= diatoms, brown algae & other taxa) | ========== "radiolaria" (P/B phylum Acantharia); actinopod sarcodine (Phaeodaria)
B= blastula Ch= choanocyte (monociliated cells with ring of microvilli around flagellum & distinct flagellar vane) D= diplosome (microtubular flagellar root) G= collagen Cp= chloroplast M= multicellularity N= micro- & macro-nucleus |
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