Hypermastigia

Hypermastigia
Hypermastigid
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Metamonada
Subphylum: Trichozoa
Clade: Parabasalia
Groups included
  • Tritrichomonadea
  • Hypotrichomonadea
  • Trichomonadea
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa
  • Trichonymphea
  • Spirotrichonymphea
  • Cristamonadea

Hypermastigia (hypermastigids) within microbiology, is the name used for a group of flagellate endosymbionts which were placed under the Excavata class. They are now treated as belonging to one of the groups Tritrichomonadea, Hypotrichomonadea, or Trichomonadea within the Parabasalia.

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