Filozoa
| Filozoans Temporal range:
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| Orange elephant ear sponge, sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans .
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Amorphea |
| Clade: | Obazoa |
| Clade: | Opisthokonta |
| Clade: | Holozoa |
| Clade: | Filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008 |
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The Filozoa are a
Mesomycetozoa).[1]
Three groups are currently included within the clade Filozoa:
- Group genera Ministeria and Capsaspora
- Group Choanoflagellatea - collared flagellates
- Kingdom Animalia - the group of which all extant animals belong to
Etymology
The name Filozoa originates from the Latin word filum meaning "thread" and the Greek word zōion meaning "animal".
Phylogeny
Below is a phylogenetic tree of Filozoa and the groups most closely related to the Filozoa :[2][3][4][5]
Opisthokonta
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| 1300 mya |
Characteristics
The ancestral
microvilli, that are also made from actin) around the cilium or flagellum; this is thought to be an inheritance from their most recent common filozoan ancestor.[1]
