Root pods

The division of living beings into systematics is a continuous subject of research. Different systematic classifications exist side by side and one after the other. The taxon treated here has become obsolete due to new research or is not part of the group systematics presented in the German-language Wikipedia.

Different shells of root pods. Illustration from the magazine Die Gartenlaube from 1865.

As rhizopoda (Rhizopoda) refers heterotrophic protozoa , whose cytoplasm is capable of forming for the purpose of food intake, locomotion, and anchorage in the substrate form variable protuberances, called pseudopodia (pseudopodia).

Because of this feature, they were of Carl von Siebold first described in 1845 as a taxon, they contained, among other things, the amoebae , which Thecamoeben , the foraminifera that heliozoa (Heliozoa) and radiolarians (Radiolaria). From a phylogenetic point of view, the taxon has been abandoned as polyphyletic and therefore no longer durable.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rudolf Röttger: Dictionary of Protozoology , in: Protozoological Monographs, Vol. 2 (2001), p. 189, ISBN 3826585992