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Excavata

(Infrakingdom)

Overview

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An Infrakingdom in the Kingdom Protozoa.

Taxonomy

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The Infrakingdom Excavata is further organized into finer groupings including:

Phyla

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Euglenozoa

The Euglenozoa are a large group of protozoa. They include a variety of common free-living species, as well as a few important parasites, some of which infect humans. There are two main subgroups, the euglenids and kinetoplastids. Euglenozoa are unicellular, mostly around 15-40 µm in size, although some euglenids get up to 500 µm long. [more]

Loukozoa

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Metamonada

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Percolozoa

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At least 10 species and subspecies belong to the Phylum Percolozoa.

More info about the Phylum Percolozoa may be found here.

Sources

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Last Revised: September 22, 2009
2009/09/22 23:30:51