Amorphea

Amorpheans
Temporal range: Early Ectasian - Present,
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Adl et al., 2012
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Synonyms

Amorphea is a taxonomic supergroup that includes the basal Amoebozoa and Obazoa. That latter contains the Opisthokonta, which includes the fungi, animals and the choanoflagellates. The taxonomic affinities of the members of this clade were originally described and proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 2002.

The International Society of Protistologists, the recognised body for taxonomy of protozoa, recommended in 2012 that the term Unikont be changed to Amorphea because the name "Unikont" is based on a hypothesized synapomorphy that the ISOP authors and other scientists later rejected.

It includes amoebozoa, opisthokonts, and apusomonads.

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