Wobblata Explained

Wobblata is a paraphyletic grouping of all placidozoans except Opalinata. It unites the classes Placididea, Nanomonadea and Opalomonadea.^[1]

Description

Members of this group are ancestrally aerobic phagotrophic biciliates.^[1] They have tubular mitochondrial cristae and a hairy anterior cilium.^[1] They have a split right microtubular root,^[1] i.e. one of the two (left and right) microtubular roots that support the feeding groove is split in two.^[2] They lack a cytopharynx, and some of them have lost their anterior cilium.^[1]

Phylogeny

The cladogram shows the relationships between Wobblata and the rest of Opalozoans.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes . Thomas . Cavalier-Smith . Thomas Cavalier-Smith . Josephine Margaret . Scoble . 2012 . European Journal of Protistology . 49 . 3 . 328–353 . 10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002 . 23219323 .
2. Alastair G. B. . Simpson . David J. . Patterson . The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the "excavate hypothesis" . European Journal of Protistology . 35 . 4 . 1999 . 353–370 . 0932-4739 . 10.1016/S0932-4739(99)80044-3 .