Opalinata is a superclass of non-phagotrophic heterokonts that unites the classes Opalinea and Blastocystea, and is the sister group to Opalomonadea.[1]
| Opalinata | |
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| Opalina ranarum, a species of Opalinea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Bigyra |
| Infraphylum: | Placidozoa |
| Superclass: | Opalinata Wenyon, 1926 em. Cavalier-Smith, 1996 stat. n. 2006[1] |
| Classes[1] | |
Description
editWhen Opalinata was first erected as a taxon in 1926, it was placed as the sole class in the group "Protociliata" and considered as primitive ciliates due to the fact that they move thanks to their numerous cilia and that they both present two nuclei.[2] They were distinguished because they perform syngamy by the complete fusion of uninucleated gametes, while the rest of ciliates, forming "Euciliata" (Ciliata + Suctoria), perform syngamy through their micronuclei alone while their macronuclei dissolve.[2]
The taxon Opalinata was revised in 1996 by Cavalier-Smith and placed in Opalozoa, and is now defined by the following synapomorphies: gut parasitism and the loss of peroxisomes and phagocytosis.[3]
Phylogeny
editThe cladogram below shows the relationships between Opalinata and the rest of Opalozoa.[1]
Classification
editThe modern taxonomy of Opalinata is as follows:[1]
- Phylum Bigyra
- Subphylum Opalozoa Cavalier-Smith, 1991 stat. n. 2006 em.
- Infraphylum Placidozoa Cavalier-Smith 2013
- Superclass Opalinata Wenyon, 1926 em. Cavalier-Smith, 1996 stat. n. 2006
- Class Opalinea Wenyon, 1926 stat. n. Cavalier-Smith, 1993 em. 2013
- Order Proteromonadida Grassé, 1952 em. Cavalier-Smith, 1993
- Family Proteromonadidae Grassé, 1952 (Proteromonas)
- Order Opalinida Poche, 1913 stat. n. Hall, 1953 em. Cavalier-Smith
- Family Karotomorphidae Travis, 1934 (Karotomorpha)
- Family Opalinidae Claus, 1874 (e.g. Cepedea, Protoopalina, Opalina)
- Order Proteromonadida Grassé, 1952 em. Cavalier-Smith, 1993
- Class Blastocystea Zierdt et al., 1967
- Order Blastocystida Zierdt, 1978
- Family Blastocystidae Jiang and He, 1988 (type genus Blastocystis Aléxéieff, 1911)
- Order Blastocystida Zierdt, 1978
- Class Opalinea Wenyon, 1926 stat. n. Cavalier-Smith, 1993 em. 2013
- Superclass Opalinata Wenyon, 1926 em. Cavalier-Smith, 1996 stat. n. 2006
- Infraphylum Placidozoa Cavalier-Smith 2013
- Subphylum Opalozoa Cavalier-Smith, 1991 stat. n. 2006 em.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Scoble, Josephine Margaret (2012). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.
- ^ a b Wenyon, Charles Morley (1926). Protozoology : a manual for medical men, veterinarians and zoologists. Vol. 1. William Wood & Company. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7465.
- ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (1997). "Amoeboflagellates and mitochondrial cristae in eukaryote evolution: megasystematics of the new protozoan subkingdoms eozoa and neozoa". Archiv für Protistenkunde. 147 (3–4): 237–258. doi:10.1016/S0003-9365(97)80051-6. ISSN 0003-9365.