WoRMS taxon details
Euglenozoa
- Class Diplonemea
- Subphylum Euglenoida
- Class Euglenoidea
- Subphylum Glycomonada
- Genus Heteromastix H.J.Clark, 1865
- Genus Liburna G.Lax, W.J.Lee, Y.Eglit & A.Simpson, 2019
- Class Postgaardea
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cavalier-Smith, T. (1981). Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine?. <em>Biosystems.</em> 14(3-4):461-81. [details]
Nomenclature If botanists wish for historical reasons to treat photosynthetic euglenoids under the International Code of Nomenclature...
Nomenclature "Kingdom Euglenozoa: Distinguishing characters and constituent Phylum" consituted simultaenous description of Kingdom and...
Nomenclature If botanists wish for historical reasons to treat photosynthetic euglenoids under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, that is not unreasonable provided that this policy is strictly limited to Euglenophyceae as circumscribed here (as it includes Rapazida, broader than Euglenophycidae of Busse and Preisfeld (2003) and compositionally equivalent Euglenophyceae sensu Marin et al. 2003). The botanical division/phylum name Euglenophyta Pascher, 1931 should not be applied to Euglenozoa or Euglenoida as a whole as it is profoundly misleading for either of these ancestrally phagotrophic, non-photosynthetic, non-algal protozoan taxa. I considered using Euglenidea, already in use decades ago (e.g. Fernández-Galiano 1990), as a ‘zoological’ tradition class name instead of Euglenophyceae, but settled on the latter as it should be more acceptable to both phycologists and protozoologists and thus promote future stability. [details]
Nomenclature "Kingdom Euglenozoa: Distinguishing characters and constituent Phylum" consituted simultaenous description of Kingdom and...
Nomenclature "Kingdom Euglenozoa: Distinguishing characters and constituent Phylum" consituted simultaenous description of Kingdom and Phylum." Valid under ICZN. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Euglenozoa. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536202 on 2025-04-03
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Nomenclature
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Cavalier-Smith, T. (1981). Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine?. <em>Biosystems.</em> 14(3-4):461-81. [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
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Cavalier-Smith, T. (2016). Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa. <em>European Journal of Protistology.</em> 56: 250-276., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2016.09.003 [details] Available for editors 
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Nomenclature If botanists wish for historical reasons to treat photosynthetic euglenoids under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, that is not unreasonable provided that this policy is strictly limited to Euglenophyceae as circumscribed here (as it includes Rapazida, broader than Euglenophycidae of Busse and Preisfeld (2003) and compositionally equivalent Euglenophyceae sensu Marin et al. 2003). The botanical division/phylum name Euglenophyta Pascher, 1931 should not be applied to Euglenozoa or Euglenoida as a whole as it is profoundly misleading for either of these ancestrally phagotrophic, non-photosynthetic, non-algal protozoan taxa. I considered using Euglenidea, already in use decades ago (e.g. Fernández-Galiano 1990), as a ‘zoological’ tradition class name instead of Euglenophyceae, but settled on the latter as it should be more acceptable to both phycologists and protozoologists and thus promote future stability. [details]Nomenclature "Kingdom Euglenozoa: Distinguishing characters and constituent Phylum" consituted simultaenous description of Kingdom and Phylum." Valid under ICZN. [details]
