HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE PHYLUM CARPEDIEMONADA (CAVALIER-SMITH 2003)
| EUKARYA> EXCAVATA> EUEXCAVATA> CARPEDIEMONADA |
CARPEDIEMONADA LINKS
| This system is a modification of Cavalier-Smith (2003b). |
CLASS CARPEDIEMONADEA
- The class has a single order (CARPEDIEMONADIDA) with the characters of the phylum.
- Carpediemonas.
| LITERATURE CITED Cavalier-Smith, T. 2003b. The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grasse emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53:1741-1758. Ekebom, J., D. J. Patterson, and N. Vors. 1996. Heterotrophic flagellates from coral reef sediments (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). Archiv fur Protisenkunde. 146: 251-272. Patterson, D. J. 1999. The diversity of eukaryotes. American Naturalist. 154 (Suppl.): S96–S124. Simpson, A. G. B., and D. J. Patterson. 2001. On core jakobids and excavate taxa: the ultrastructure of: Jakoba incarcerata. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 48: 480–492. Simpson, A. G. B., A. J. Roger, J. D. Silberman, D. D. Leipe, V. P. Edgcomb, L. S. Jermiin, D. J. Patterson, and M. L. Sogin. 2002. Evolutionary history of ‘early diverging’ eukaryotes: The excavate taxon Carpediemonas is close relative of Giardia. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 1782–1791. |
| By Jack R. Holt. Last revised: 02/12/2012 |
