Rhizaria

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Rhizaria
Ammonia tepida, a foraminifera with pseudopodia ready to be caught

Ammonia tepida , a foraminifera with pseudopodia ready to be caught

Systematics
Classification : Creature
Domain : Eukaryotes (eukaryota)
without rank: Diaphoreticks
without rank: Sar
without rank: Rhizaria
Scientific name
Rhizaria
Cavalier-Smith , 1987

The Rhizaria are a group of unicellular organisms that belong to the eukaryotes (organisms with a cell nucleus ). They include around 12,000 species.

The systematics of the eukaryotes by Adl et al. In 2005 Rhizaria was listed as one of the six taxa in this domain . Some groups of rhizaria, in particular the two largest groups, the foraminifera (Foraminifera) and the radiolucent animals (Radiolaria), have developed hard shells that can be preserved for fossil fuels and are of great importance as reference fossils in geological stratigraphy .

features

All members of the Rhizaria have fine pseudopodia , so-called pseudopodia , as a characteristic feature . These can be simple or branched and linked to one another via anastomoses . In some groups there is also a stiffening cytoskeleton made of microtubules , which means that the pseudopodia are spiky and form filopodia .

The Chlorarachniophyta within the Cercozoa have chloroplasts and are therefore capable of photosynthesis .

Systematics

Adl et al. in 2005 divided the Rhizaria into five groups without classical ranks.

However, the same working group adapted the system significantly in 2012, with the previous groups being classified into the two groups Cercozoa and Retaria :

Individual evidence

  1. a b Adl, Sina M., Leander, Brian S., Simpson, Alastair GB, Archibald, John M., Anderson, O. Roger., Bass, David, Bowser, Samuel S., Brugerolle, Guy, Farmer, Mark A., Karpov, Sergey, Kolisko, Martin, Lane, Christopher E., Lodge, Deborah J., Mann, David G., Meisterfeld, Ralf, Mendoza, Leonel, Moestrup, Øjvind, Mozley-Standridge, Sharon E., Smirnov , Alexey V. and Spiegel, Frederick (2007) Diversity, Nomenclature and Taxonomy of Protists , In: Systematic Biology, 56: 4, 685

literature

  • Sina M. Adl, Alastair GB Simpson, Mark A. Farmer, Robert A. Andersen, O. Roger Anderson, John A. Barta, Samual S. Bowser, Guy Bragerolle, Robert A. Fensome, Suzanne Fredericq, Timothy Y. James, Sergei Karpov, Paul Kugrens, John Krug, Christopher E. Lane, Louise A. Lewis, Jean Lodge, Denis H. Lynn, David G. Mann, Richard M. McCourt, Leonel Mendoza, Øjvind Moestrup, Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge, Thomas A. Nerad, Carol A. Shearer, Alexey V. Smirnov, Frederick W. Spiegel, Max FJR Taylor: The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists. The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52 (5), 2005; Pp. 399-451. PMID 16248873 . doi : 10.1111 / j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x .

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