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IRMNG taxon details

Metamonada

245  (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:245)

Grassé, 1952
accepted
Phylum
Hypermastigidae · unaccepted (obsolete name)

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  1. Class Anaeromonadea
  2. Genus Barthelona Bernard, Simpson & Patterson, 2000
  3. Class Carpomonadea
  4. Class Cristamonadea
  5. Class Dientamoebea
  6. Class Eopharyngea
  7. Class Hypotrichomonadea
  8. Class Lophomonadea
  9. Class Monocercomonadea
  10. Class Pimpavickea
  11. Class Simplicimonadea
  12. Genus Skoliomonas Eglit, Williams, Roger & Simpson, 2024
  13. Class Spirotrichonymphea
  14. Class Trichomonadea
  15. Class Trichonymphea
  16. Class Tritrichomonadea
  17. Class Carpediemonadea accepted as Carpomonadea (Previous spelling)
  18. Class Hypermastigia accepted as Trichomonadea
  19. Family Hypermastigidae accepted as Metamonada (obsolete name)
  20. Class Parabasalia accepted as Trichomonadea (Class no longer recognised, members dispersed into Trichomonadea and elsewhere)
  21. Class Trepomonadea accepted as Eopharyngea (No longer treated as separate class, refer Ruggiero et al. (2015))
terrestrial
recent + fossil
Grassé, P.-P. (Ed.). (1952). Traité de Zoologie. Vol. 1.1, Protozoaires: Flagellés, 1952. Masson, Paris. [details] 
Taxonomic remark Originally erected in Grassé, 1952 as superorder (Metamonadina); listed as subphylum in Cavalier-Smith, 2013, phylum in...  
Taxonomic remark Originally erected in Grassé, 1952 as superorder (Metamonadina); listed as subphylum in Cavalier-Smith, 2013, phylum in Ruggiero, 2014 and Ruggiero et al., 2015. [details]
IRMNG (2025). Metamonada. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=245 on 2026-01-06
Date
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2010-05-31 22:00:00Z
created
2011-12-31 23:00:00Z
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2017-03-14 18:41:53Z
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2019-05-16 19:30:31Z
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2025-10-27 02:16:27Z
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original description Grassé, P.-P. (Ed.). (1952). Traité de Zoologie. Vol. 1.1, Protozoaires: Flagellés, 1952. Masson, Paris. [details] 

basis of record Cavalier-Smith, T. (2003). The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa. <em>International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.</em> 53(6): 1741-1758., available online at https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0 [details] 

additional source Cavalier-Smith, T. (2013). Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa. <em>European Journal of Protistology.</em> 49(2): 115-178., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2012.06.001
note: as subphylum [details] 

current name source Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). A higher level classification of all living organisms. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 10(4): e0119248., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 [details] 
Unreviewed
Taxonomic remark Originally erected in Grassé, 1952 as superorder (Metamonadina); listed as subphylum in Cavalier-Smith, 2013, phylum in Ruggiero, 2014 and Ruggiero et al., 2015. [details]

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