Heliomorpha

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Heliomorpha
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Rhizaria
Phylum: Cercozoa
Class: Granofilosea
Order: Heliomonadida
Family: Heliomorphidae
Cavalier-Smith & Bass in Bass, Chao, Nikolaev, Yabuki, Ishida, Berney, Pakzad, Wylezich & Cavalier-Smith, 2009
Genus: Heliomorpha
Cavalier-Smith & Bass 2009
Type species
Heliomorpha mucosa
Cavalier-Smith & Bass 2009
Species
  • Heliomorpha depressaCavalier-Smith & Bass 2009
  • Heliomorpha mucosaCavalier-Smith & Bass 2009

Heliomorpha is a genus of Cercozoa, placed in its own family, Heliomorphidae. [1] It used to be known as "Dimorpha", but that name was a junior synonym several times over. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 David Bass; Ema E.-Y. Chao; Sergey Nikolaev; Akinori Yabuki; Ken-ichiro Ishida; Cédric Berney; Ursula Pakzad; Claudia Wylezich & Thomas Cavalier-Smith (2009). "Phylogeny of novel naked filose and reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised". Protist . 160 (1): 75–109. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.07.002. PMID   18952499.