Filozoa

Filozoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor) that is in the Opisthokonta clade. It includes animals, and their close single-celled relatives. These relatives are more closely related to animals than they are to fungi,[1] and other Opisthokonts.

Filozoa
Temporal range: Late Tonian - Present, 782.2–0 Ma
Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Clade: Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked): Holozoa
(unranked): Filozoa
Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008
Subgroups

Three groups are in Filozoa: Filasterea, Choanoflagellatea, and Kingdom Animalia. Animalia is the most important one, which has all proper animals in it.

Evolution

The phylogenic tree (evolution tree) below shows how clades broke into newer clades. This includes Filozoa.

Opisthokonta
Holomycota
Cristidiscoidea

Fonticulida



Nucleariida



Fungi/Zoosporia

BCG2





True Fungi



Aphelida





BCG1


Rozellomyceta/

Rozella




Namako-37



Microsporidia








Holozoa

Ichthyosporea



Pluriformea

Syssomonas



Corallochytrium



Filozoa

Filasterea


Choanozoa

Choanoflagellate



Animalia







References

  1. Shalchian-Tabrizi K.; Minge M.A.; Espelund M. (7 May 2008). Aramayo, Rodolfo (ed.). "Multigene phylogeny of choanozoa and the origin of animals". PLOS ONE. 3 (5): e2098. Bibcode:2008PLoSO...3.2098S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002098. PMC 2346548. PMID 18461162. open access publication – free to read
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