Platysulcidae

Platysulcidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
Superphylum: Heterokonta
Class: Platysulcea
Order: Platysulcida
Family: Platysulcidae
Genus: Platysulcus
Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015
Species
  • P. tardus Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015

Platysulcidae is a monotypic family of heterokonts that was recently discovered to be the earliest diverging lineage of the Heterokont phylogenetic tree.[1]

Taxonomy

  • Class Platysulcea Cavalier-Smith 2017[2]
    • Order Platysulcida Cavalier-Smith 2017
      • Family Platysulcidae Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015
        • Genus Platysulcus Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015
          • Species Platysulcus tardus Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015

References

  1. ↑ Shiratori, Takashi; Nakayama, Takeshi; Ishida, Ken-ichiro (2015). "A New Deep-branching Stramenopile, Platysulcus tardus gen. nov., sp. nov". Protist. 166 (3): 337–348. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2015.05.001. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 26070192.
  2. ↑ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (5 September 2017). "Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences". Protoplasma: 1–61. doi:10.1007/s00709-017-1147-3.
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