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Protozoans

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What are Protozoans?

• The Mobility Factor
• Eat or be Eaten

Kingdom Protista (121775+ species)

• Section I Chromobionts (30,000-100,000 species)
  • Phylum Chrysophyta
  • Phylum Synurophyta
  • Phylum Haptophyta
    Prymnesiophyta
  • Phylum Xanthophyta
  • Phylum Pedinellophyta
  • Phylum Chlorarachniophyta
  • Phylum Eustigmatophyta
  • Phylum Bacillariophyta
    Diatoms
  • Phylum Phaeophyta
    Brown Algae
  • Phylum Oomycota
  • Phylum Hyphochytridiomycota
  • Phylum Proteromonadea
  • Phylum Opalinata
• Section II Chlorobionts (10,000 species)
  • Phylum Chlorophyta
  • Phylum Charophyta
  • Phylum Micromonadophyta
  • Phylum Pleurastrophyta
  • Phylum Ulvophyta
  • Phylum Glaucophyta
• Section III Euglenozoa (1,600 species)
  • Phylum Euglenophyta
  • Phylum Kinetoplastidea
    • Class Bodoninea
    • Class Trypanosomatea
  • Phylum Pseudociliatea
  • Phylum Hemimastigophorea
• Section IV Rhodophytes (5,000 species)
  Red Algae
  • Phylum Rhodophyta
• Section V. Cryptomonads (200 species)
  • Phylum Cryptophyta
• Section VI Dinozoa (4,200 species)
  • Phylum Dinoflagellata
    Pyrrhophyta
    • Class Peridinea
    • Class Syndinea
• Section VII Chytrids
  • Phylum Chytridiomycetes
• Section VIII Choanoflagellates
  • Phylum Choanomonadea
• Section IX Polymastigotes (750-800 species)
  • Phylum Metamonadea
    • Class Retortamonadea
    • Class Diplomonadea
    • Class Oxymonadea
  • Phylum Parabasalia
    • Class Trichomonadea
    • Class Hypermastiginea
• Section X Rhizopod sarcodines (44,000 species)
  • Phylum Karyoblastea
  • Phylum Lobosea
  • Phylum Filosea
  • Phylum Acarpomyxea
  • Phylum Granuloreticulosa
    • Class Foraminiferidea
  • Phylum Mycetozoa
    Myxomycetes
    • Class Protosteliidea
    • Class Myxogastrea
  • Phylum Dictyosteliidea
  • Phylum Acrasidea
  • Phylum Plasmodiophorea
  • Phylum Xenophyophorea
  • Phylum Labyrinthomorpha
• Section XI Actinopod sarcodines (11,000-12,000 species)
  • Phylum Actinophryidea
  • Phylum Centrohelidea
  • Phylum Gymnosphaeridea
  • Phylum Desmothoracidea
  • Phylum Taxopoda
  • Phylum Acantharia
  • Phylum Polycystina
  • Phylum Phaeodaria
• Section XII Apicomplexans (5,000 species)
  • Phylum Sporozoa
    Apicomplexa
    • Class Gregarinidea
    • Class Coccidea
    • Class Hematozoea
    • Class Perkinsidea
• Section XIII Microsporidia (800 species)
  • Phylum Microsporidia
    Microspora
• Section XIV Haplosporidia (25 species)
  • Phylum Haplosporidia
    Ascetospora
• Section XV Myxozoa (1,200+ species)
  • Phylum Myxosporidia
    Myxospora
  • Phylum Paramyxidia
• Section XVI Ciliates (8,000 species)
  • Phylum Ciliophora
    • Class Karyorelictea
    • Class Spirotrichea
      Polyhymenophorea
    • Class Litostomatea
    • Class Prostomatea
    • Class Phylloaryngea
    • Class Nassophorea
    • Class Oligohymenophorea
    • Class Colpodea

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