IRMNG - Protaspidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993

IRMNG taxon details

Protaspidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993

IRMNG_ID

119698 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:119698)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Cryomonadida

Synonymised names

Cryothecomonadidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993 · unaccepted

Protaspidaceae · unaccepted

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Genus Cryothecomonas Thomsen, Buck, Bolt & Garrison, 1991
Genus Protaspa Cavalier-Smith, 2011
Genus Sinistermonas Lee, 2015
Genus Protaspis Skuja, 1939 accepted as Protaspa Cavalier-Smith, 2011 (preoccupied by the Devonian fish genus, Protaspis Bryant, 1933)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Protaspidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119698 on 2024-04-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-05-26 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

basis of record Howe, A.T., Bass, D., Scoble, J.M., Lewis, R., Vickerman, K., Arndt, H. & Cavalier-Smith, T. (2011). Novel Cultured Protists Identify Deep-branching Environmental DNA Clades of Cercozoa: New Genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia. Protist. 162(2): 332-372., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2010.10.002 [details]

additional source Shɨshkin, Y. (2021). Protaspaidae nom. n. (fam.) pro Protaspidae Skuja 1939 (Cryomonadida, Eothecia, Thecofilosea, Filosa, Rhizaria), with Protaspa obliqua transferred to Stultaspa gen. n. (Stultaspidae fam. n.) as Stultaspa obliqua comb. n. and diagnosis of the former family amended. Zootaxa. 5082(5): 497-500., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.8 [details]

extant flag source Howe, A.T., Bass, D., Scoble, J.M., Lewis, R., Vickerman, K., Arndt, H. & Cavalier-Smith, T. (2011). Novel Cultured Protists Identify Deep-branching Environmental DNA Clades of Cercozoa: New Genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia. Protist. 162(2): 332-372., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2010.10.002 [details]

habitat flag source as per Protaspidaceae [details]

From other sources

Classification Eukaryota (Superkingdom) > Protista (Kingdom) > Cercozoa (Phylum) > Thecofilosea (Class) > Cryomonadida (Order) > Protaspidae (Family) [details]

Descriptive info Predominantly FW but one species in brackish water (Bourelly 1985, Algaebase) [details]

Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]

To WoRMS (from synonym Protaspidaceae)