Placidozoa

{{Short description|Group of non-photosynthetic organisms}}

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| image = Opalina ranarum Protsville.jpg

| image_caption = Opalina ranarum, a species of placidozoan

| taxon = Placidozoa

| authority = Cavalier-Smith 2013

| subdivision_ranks = Classes

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Placidozoa is a recently defined non-photosynthetic lineage of Stramenopiles.{{Cite journal| last1=Cavalier-Smith | first1=Thomas | last2=Scoble | first2=Josephine Margaret |title=Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes | journal=European Journal of Protistology | date=2013 | volume=49 | issue= 3 | pages=328–353 | doi= 10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002| pmid= 23219323}}{{citation | date=2015 | last= Ruggiero |first=Michael A. | title = Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms | volume=10 |issue=4 |pages= e0119248 |journal=PLOS ONE | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 |display-authors=etal | pmid=25923521 | pmc=4418965 | bibcode = 2015PLoSO..1019248R | doi-access = free }}

Phylogeny

In 2016, Philippe Silar presented the following phylogeny for the Placidozoa:{{cite journal |last=Silar |first=Philippe |title=Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes |date=2016 |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01263138 |pages=1–462 |journal=HAL Archives-ouvertes }}

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|1=Placididea

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|1=Nanomonadea

|2={{Clade

|1=Opalomonadea

|label2=Opalinata

|2={{Clade

|1=Blastocystea

|2=Opalinea

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Taxonomy

Infraphylum Placidozoa Cavalier-Smith 2013

References

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