Conosa is a grouping of
Amoebozoa
Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In traditional and currently no longer supported classi ...
. It is subdivided into three groups –
Archamoebae
The Archamoebae are a group of protists originally thought to have evolved before the acquisition of mitochondria by eukaryotes. They include genera that are internal parasites or commensals of animals (''Entamoeba'' and ''Endolimax''). A few sp ...
,
Variosea (
paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
) and
Mycetozoa (
polyphyletic).
In some classifications, the mycetozoan
Myxogastria and
Dictyostelia are united in
Macromycetozoa
Macromycetozoa is a grouping of Amoebozoa
Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In traditio ...
.
Conosa includes the species ''
Dictyostelium discoideum'' and ''
Entamoeba histolytica'', among others.
References
Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Amorphea subphyla
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