Urostylida

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Urostylida
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Class: Spirotrichea
Subclass: Stichotrichia
Order: Urostylida
Jankowski, 1979
Families
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Urostylida is an order of littoral ciliates. [1] The taxonomy of the order is largely unresolved and still subject to scientific inquiry. [2] [3] [4]

Families

According to the Catalogue of Life, nine families are accepted within Holosticha. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Holostichidae". Catalogue of Life . Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  2. Yi, Zhenzhen; Song, Weibo (2011-03-08). "Evolution of the Order Urostylida (Protozoa, Ciliophora): New Hypotheses Based on Multi-Gene Information and Identification of Localized Incongruence". PLOS ONE. 6 (3) e17471. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...617471Y. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017471 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   3050893 . PMID   21408166.
  3. Lyu, Zhao; Wang, Jingyi; Huang, Jie; Warren, Alan; Shao, Chen (2018). "Multigene-based phylogeny of Urostylida (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with establishment of a novel family". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (2): 243–254. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12267 . ISSN   1463-6409. S2CID   90453288.
  4. Adl, Sina M.; Bass, David; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; Schoch, Conrad L.; Smirnov, Alexey; Agatha, Sabine; Berney, Cedric; Brown, Matthew W.; Burki, Fabien; Cárdenas, Paco (2019). "Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66 (1): 4–119. doi:10.1111/jeu.12691. ISSN   1066-5234. PMC   6492006 . PMID   30257078.