Diplomonadida

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Proper noun

Diplomonadida

A taxonomic order within the class Eopharyngea – small heterotrophic protists with no mitochondria, most found principally in the intestines of animals, where the are parasitic and cause disease; thought to form one of the earliest branches of eukaryote evolution.

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Eozoa - subkingdom; Excavata - infrakingdom; Metamonada - phylum; Eopharyngea - class

Hyponyms

(order): Enteromonadidae; Hexamitidae - families

See also

Fornicata

References

Diplomonad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Diplozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Distomatida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Diplomonadida at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Diplomonadida at Encyclopedia of Life
Diplomonadida on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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