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| TAXONOMY OF RHIZOPODA (syn. Sarcodina) | ||||
| Rhizopods are heterotropic protozoans lacking permanent locomotive organelles like cilia or flagellae. To move and to catch prey, they use transient cellular extensions, the so called pseudopods. According to their shape and organization they are called lobopods (lobular), filopods (fathom-like), rhizo- or reticulopods (net-like) and axopods (more or less stable and fixed). The different pseudopodial extensions are also used for classification. | ||||
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1. Ordo: Amoebina Dictyostelium Amoeba Pelomyxa Naegleria |
2. Ordo: Testacea Arcella Centropyxis Corythion Cyphoderia Difflugia Euglypha Nebalia |
3. Ordo:Foraminifera Patellina Rotaliella |
4. Ordo: Heliozoa 1. Subordo Actinophryida Actinophrys Rhaphidiocystis Acanthocystis 2. Subordo Centrohelida Actinosphaerium |
5. Ordo: Radiolaria 1. Subordo Periphylea Collozoum inerme 2. Subordo Monopylea 3. Subordo Tripylea 4. Subordo Acantharia |
| The taxonomy shown above is according to: Hans-Eckhard Gruner (ed., 1993) Lehrbuch der Speziellen Zoologie. Band I, Teil 1: Einführung, Protozoa, Placozoa, Porifera. 5.Auflage. Gustav Springer Verlag, Stuttgart, Jena, New York. | ||||
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