Teretosporea are a proposed basal

Holozoa Holozoa is a group of organisms that includes animals and their closest single-celled relatives, but excludes fungi. ''Holozoa'' is also an old name for the tunicate genus ''Distaplia''.'' Because Holozoa is a clade including all organisms mor ...

clade in which

Ichthyosporea The Mesomycetozoea (or DRIP clade, or Ichthyosporea) are a small group of Opisthokonta in Eukaryote, Eukaryota (formerly protists), mostly parasites of fish and other animals. Significance They are not particularly distinctive morphologically, a ...

and

Corallochytrium ''Corallochytrium'' belongs to the class of Corallochytrea within Teretosporea and is a sister group to Ichthyosporea. ''C. limacisporum'' is the only species of Corallochytrium known so far. It was first discovered and named in the Arabian Se ...

emerged with the

Filozoa The Filozoa are a monophyletic grouping within the Opisthokonta. They include animals and their nearest unicellular relatives (those organisms which are more closely related to animals than to fungi or Mesomycetozoa). Three groups are currentl ...

as sister clade. Since it is close to the divergence between the main lineages of

Fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

and

Animals Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in ...

, the study of Teretosporea can provide crucial information on the divergent lifestyles of these groups. With the inclusion of '' Syssomonas'' there remained very little support for the Teretosporea, and ''Corralychtrium'' appears to be a more derived Holozoa. The alternate phylogeny is the

Pluriformea Pluriformea is a proposed sibling clade of the Filozoa, and consists of '' Syssomonas multiformis'' and the Corallochytrea. Together with the Ichthyosporea they form the Holozoa Holozoa is a group of organisms that includes animals and their ...

hypothesis.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q25707158 Opisthokont unranked clades Holozoa