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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2012 Sep;59(5):429–493. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x

Table 1.

The classification of eukaryotes at the highest ranks.

Super-groups Examples
Eukaryota Amorphea Amoebozoa Tubulinea
Mycetozoa
Opisthokonta Fungi
Choanomonada
Metazoa
Apusomonada
Breviata
Excavata Metamonada
Malawimonas
Discoba
Diaphoretickes Cryptophyceae
Centrohelida
Telonemia
Haptophyta
Sar Cercozoa
Foraminifera
“Radiolaria”
Alveolata
Stramenopiles
Archaeplastida Glaucophyta
Rhodophyceae
Chloroplastida
Incertae sedis Eukaryota Incertae sedis, and
table 3