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Kinetofragminophora
Cyrtocaryum halosydnae of the order Apostomatida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Ciliophora
Class:	Kinetofragminophora de Puytorac et al., 1974

Kinetofragminophora is a class of Ciliophora. WoRMS said we shall disuse this classification.

Description

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Etymology

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Taxonomy

Kinetofragminophora contained the following orders:

• Apostomatida Chatton & Lwoff, 1928: Now belongs to Oligohymenophorea;
• Plagiopylida Jankowski, 1978
• Suctorida Claparède & Lachmann, 1858
• Trichostomatida Bütschli, 1889

But WoRMS further classify the class into the following three subclasses:

• Subclass Gymnostomata (disused)
  • Order Primociliatida accepted as Karyorelictea (junior synonym)
• Hypostomata (disused)
  • Order Chonotrichida (disused): becomes Chonotrichia of Phyllopharyngea
  • Order Cyrtophorida (disused)
• Subclass Vestibulifera (disused)
  • Order Trichostomatida (disused)

References

1. ^ "Class Kinetofragminophora". iNaturalist. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
2. ^ "Kinetofragminophora". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
3. ^ Parker, S.P., ed. (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. New York, NY (USA): McGraw Hill Book Company. pp. 1166, 1232 pp. ISBN 0-07-079031-0.
4. "Kinetofragminophora". GBIF. Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
5. Al-Rasheid, K. A. (1997). "Records of free-living ciliates in Saudi Arabia. II. Freshwater benthic ciliates of Al-Hassa Oasis, Eastern region" (PDF). Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research. 15: 193. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
6. ^ Warren, Alan; Kihara, Ulrike (2009-11-16). "Cyrtophorida". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-12-01.

• Ciliates
• Obsolete taxa