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Kinetoplastea

[= Kinetoplastida]

Life > Eukaryotes > Excavata > Euglenozoa

Classification

Prokinetoplastina

Genera: Ichthyobodo, Perkinsiella.

 

Metakinetoplastina

 
 

Neobodonida

Genera: Cruzella, Dimastigella, Neobodo, Rhynchobodo, Rhynchomonas.

 
 

Parabodonida

Genera: Cryptobia, Parabodo, Procryptobia, Trypanoplasma.

 
 

Eubodonida

Genera: Bodo.

 
 

Trypanosomatida

Genera: Blastocrithidia, Crithidia, Endotrypanum, Herpetomonas, Leishmania, Leptomonas, Phytomonas, Rhynchoidomonas, Sauroleishmania, Trypanosoma (the cause of sleeping sickness and nagana), Wallaceina.

 

Uncertain position

Genera: Bordnamonas, Cephalothamnium, Hemistasia.

 

Publications

  • Adl, S.M., Simpson, A.G., Farmer, M.A., Andersen, R.A., Anderson, O.R., Barta, J.R., Bowser, S.S., Brugerolle, G., Fensome, R.A., Fredericq, S., James, T.Y., Karpov, S., Kugrens, P., Krug, J., Lane, C.E., Lewis, L.A., Lodge, J., Lynn, D.H., Mann, D.G., McCourt, R.M., Mendoza, L., Moestrup, Ø., Mozley-Standridge, S.E., Nerad, T.A., Shearer, C.A., Smirnov, A.V., Spiegel, F.W. and Taylor, M.F.J.R. 2005. The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists. Eukaryote Microbiology 52(5): 399-451.