Opalozoa

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Clade:Sar
Phylum:Bigyra
Subphylum:Opalozoa
Cavalier-Smith, 1991 stat. nov. 2006[1]
Opalozoa
Opalina ranarum, an opalozoan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Bigyra
Subphylum: Opalozoa
Cavalier-Smith, 1991 stat. nov. 2006[1]
Classes and possible taxa[1]

Opalozoa is a subphylum of heterotrophic protists of the phylum Bigyra, and is the sister group to Sagenista.[2][1] Opalozoans are non-photosynthetic heterokonts that are ancestrally phagotrophic but many times have evolved to be osmotrophic saprotrophs in the gut of vertebrate animals.[3]

History: phylum Opalozoa

Phylogeny

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