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Cabozoa

In the classification of eukaryotes, Cabozoa was a taxon proposed by Cavalier-Smith. It was a putative clade comprising the Rhizaria and Excavata. More recent research places the Rhizaria with the Alveolata and Stramenopiles instead of the Excavata, however, so "Cabozoa" is polyphyletic.

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Cabozoa
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Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Bikonta
Clade: Cabozoa
Cavalier-Smith, 1999
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Evolution of the algae, as depicted by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 2002. Neither the tree's structure nor some of the terms in the diagram reflect a modern consensus. source ↗

In the classification of eukaryotes (living organisms with a cell nucleus), Cabozoa was a taxon proposed by Cavalier-Smith.1 It was a putative clade comprising the Rhizaria and Excavata. More recent research places the Rhizaria with the Alveolata and Stramenopiles instead of the Excavata, however, so "Cabozoa" is polyphyletic.23

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  1. Cavalier-Smith T (1999). "Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46 (4): 347–66. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04614.x. PMID 18092388. S2CID 22759799.
  2. Burki F, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Minge M, Skjæveland Å, Nikolaev SI, et al. (2007). Butler G (ed.). "Phylogenomics Reshuffles the Eukaryotic Supergroups". PLOS ONE. 2 (8: e790): e790. Bibcode:2007PLoSO...2..790B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000790. PMC 1949142. PMID 17726520.
  3. Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz. Retrieved 17 March 2023.