| Haptista | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | Haptista Cavalier-Smith 2015 |
| Subgroups [1] | |
Haptista is a group of protists made up of centrohelids and haptophytes. Phylogenomic studies indicate that Haptista, together with Ancoracysta twista, forms a sister clade to the TSAR supergroup, but it may also be sister to the Cryptista (+Archaeplastida). [2] [3] [4] [5] It is thus one of the earliest diverging Diaphoretickes.