Collodictyonidae

Collodictyonidae
Collodictyon triciliatum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: CRuMs
Zmitrovich, Perelygin & Zharikov 2022[1]
Class:
Cavalier-Smith 2003
Order:
Cavalier-Smith 1993
Family:
Brugerolle et al. 2002
Genera
Synonyms
  • Diphylleidae Cavalier-Smith 1993
  • Anisomonadea Cavalier-Smith 1993 emend. 2000[2]

Collodictyonidae (also Diphylleidae) is a group of aquatic, unicellular eukaryotic organisms with two to four terminal flagella. They feed by phagocytosis, ingesting other unicellular organisms like algae and bacteria.

Recent molecular analyses place collodictyonids (e.g. Collodictyon) in a clade also containing Rigifilida and Mantamonadidae. This clade has been named CRuMs and is sister to Amorphea.[3][4]

  1. ^ Zmitrovich, Ivan V.; Перелыгин, Владимир; Zharikov, Mikhail V. (2025-06-21). "(PDF) Nomenclature and rank correlation of higher taxa of eukaryotes". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2025-06-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Flagellates 17 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Lax, Gordon; Eglit, Yana; Eme, Laura; Bertrand, Erin M.; Roger, Andrew J.; Simpson, Alastair G. B. (2018-11-14). "Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes". Nature. 564 (7736): 410–414. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0708-8. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 30429611. S2CID 205570993.
  4. ^ Brown, Matthew W; Heiss, Aaron A; Kamikawa, Ryoma; Inagaki, Yuji; Yabuki, Akinori; Tice, Alexander K; Shiratori, Takashi; Ishida, Ken-Ichiro; Hashimoto, Tetsuo (2018-01-19). "Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group". Genome Biology and Evolution. 10 (2): 427–433. doi:10.1093/gbe/evy014. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 5793813. PMID 29360967.