Perkinsea is a class of

alveolate The alveolates (meaning "pitted like a honeycomb") are a group of protists, considered a major clade and superphylum within Eukarya. They are currently grouped with the stramenopiles and Rhizaria among the protists with tubulocristate mitochon ...

Taxonomy

'' Perkinsus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

in the class Perkinsea that is a parasite of bivalve molluscs; it displays a number of features characteristic of the dinoflagellates including laterally inserted heterodynamic flagella. However, it has been settled that '' Perkinsus'' does not belong into the phyla dinoflagellata, but rather into the phylum Perkinsozoa. Two other genera have been described in this class — '' Cryptophagus'' (now renamed '' Rastrimonas'') and '' Parvilucifera''.

References

Perkinsozoa Alveolata classes {{Alveolata-stub