Colpodellida is an
order
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of
alveolate
The alveolates (meaning "pitted like a honeycomb") are a group of protists, considered a major clade and Biological classification, superphylum within Eukarya. They are currently grouped with the stramenopiles and Rhizaria among the protists with ...
eukaryote
Eukaryotes () are organisms whose cells have a nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the three domains of life. Bacte ...
s, which includes small predatory species such as ''
Colpodella pugnax
''Colpodella'' is a genus of alveolates comprising 5 species, and two further possible species: They share all the synapomorphies of apicomplexans, but are free-living, rather than parasitic. Many members of this genus were previously assigned t ...
''. They are active predatory flagellates that consume small protists. However they do not fully ingest the prey, rather they absorb or suck the contents from the prey partially or fully. This method of sucking the contents from the prey is termed as mizocytosis.
[Mylnikov, A.P. Ultrastructure and phylogeny of colpodellids (Colpodellida, Alveolata). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 36, 582–590 (2009). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1062359009060065
]
References
Apicomplexa orders
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