Platyproteum
| Platyproteum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota
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| (unranked): | Sar
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| Class: | Squirmidea[1]
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| Order: | Squirmida
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| Family: | Platyproteidae
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| Genus: | Platyproteum Rueckert & Leander 2009
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The Platyproteum are a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. Species in this genus infect marine invertebrates.
- ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2014). "Gregarine site-heterogeneous 18S rDNA trees, revision of gregarine higher classification, and the evolutionary diversification of Sporozoa". European Journal of Protistology. 50 (5): 472–495. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2014.07.002. PMID 25238406.