Filozoa

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Filozoans
Temporal range: Late Tonian - Present, 782.2–0 Ma
Orange elephant ear sponge,
sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans
.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Clade: Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked): Holozoa
(unranked): Filozoa
Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008
Subgroups

The Filozoa are a

Mesomycetozoa).[1]

Three groups are currently assigned to the clade Filozoa:

Etymology

From Latin filum meaning "thread" and Greek zōion meaning "animal".

Phylogeny

A phylogenetic tree of Filozoa and its most closely related clades:[2][3][4][5]

Opisthokonta
Holomycota
Cristidiscoidea

Fonticulida

Nucleariida

Fungi
/

BCG2

True Fungi

Aphelida

BCG1

Rozellomyceta
/
Cryptomycota
Opisthosporidia
Holozoa
1100 mya
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]

References