Rhizaria

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, root) + -aria.

Proper noun

Rhizaria

  1. Typically amoeboids with filose, reticulose, or microtubule-supported pseudopods, of which many produce shells or skeletons, which may be quite complex in structure, and these make up the vast majority of protozoan fossils and nearly all of which have mitochondria with tubular cristae.
    1. A taxonomic infrakingdom within the subkingdom Biciliata.
    2. A taxonomic infrakingdom within the subkingdom Harosa.[1]

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References

  1. Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
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