• initial version of a classification system of life by British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith appeared in 1978. This initial system continued to be modified...
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    Rhizaria, and Excavata. He was known for his systems of classification of all organisms. Cavalier-Smith was born on 21 October 1942 in London. His parents...
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  • trichomonads, and Trimastix (see Cavalier-Smith's system of classification). With the rejection of 'Archeozoa', the meaning of the term 'Metakaryota' became...
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    Thaulirens, Topsentella, Toshiba, Trichonema, Urbanella. Cavalier-Smith's system of classification Protist Protists in the fossil record The first eukaryotes...
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    scientists, such as the late Thomas Cavalier-Smith, still hold and held to the two-empire system. The late Ernst Mayr, one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary...
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    difference from earlier classifications such as the two-empire system and the five-kingdom classification is the splitting of Archaea (previously named...
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    infrakingdom, e.g., Protostomia and Deuterostomia in the classification of Cavalier-Smith. The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient...
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    Chromista (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
    Haptophyta → Myzozoa Cabozoa Cavalier-Smith's system of classification List of Chromista by conservation status Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Allsopp, M. T.; Chao...
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  • Brusca, Richard C.; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Kirk, Paul M.; Thuesen, Erik V. (2015). "A higher level classification of all living organisms"...
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    where they are transferred to the surface of the cell. Cavalier-Smith's system of classification Cavalier-Smith T (December 1993). "Kingdom protozoa and...
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    different conflicting classifications for nucleariids remain in use depending on the authors. Cavalier-Smith maintained his system through the years, using...
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    recently been added to Heterolobosea. Subphylum Tetramitia Cavalier-Smith 1993 em. Cavalier-Smith 2008 Class Heterolobosea Page & Blanton 1985 Order Acrasida...
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    between these two groups. Cavalier-Smith has published classifications in which the archaebacteria are part of a subkingdom of the Kingdom Bacteria. Blue-green...
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    Phylum (redirect from List of animal phyla)
    Cavalier-Smith system. Protist taxonomy has long been unstable, with different approaches and definitions resulting in many competing classification schemes...
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    while applying it to differing scopes of organisms. In a series of classifications by Thomas Cavalier-Smith and collaborators since 1981, the taxon...
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    emend. Cavalier-Smith 2016 Order Natomonadida Cavalier-Smith 2016 Suborder Metanemina Cavalier-Smith 2016 Family Neometanemidae Cavalier-Smith 2016 Suborder...
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    Chromalveolata by Cavalier-Smith. He believed them to be a monophyletic group, but this is not the case. In 2005, in a classification reflecting the consensus...
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    Euglenozoa (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
    classification of Euglenozoa is as described by Cavalier-Smith in 2016, modified to include the new subphylum Plicomonada according to Cavalier-Smith...
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    ancestors of Pelomyxa palustris had most probably possessed mitochondria. By the end of the decade, it was clear that all members of Cavalier-Smith's Archamoebae...
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    first described in 1998 by protistologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith in his work A revised six-kingdom system of life, originally as a superphylum containing two...
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    Conosa (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
    Conosa group was first proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1998 as a subphylum of Amoebozoa. Cavalier-Smith originally separated this group into two infraphyla:...
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    Clay and Paul Kugrens reviewed the systematics of katablepharids and rejected Cavalier-Smith's classification. Instead, they adopted Vørs' family, corrected...
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    Cercozoa (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
    Skiomonadea, within Reticulofilosa. The classification of Cercozoa was revised in 2018: Subphylum Reticulofilosa Cavalier-Smith 1997 Class Chlorarachnea Hibberd...
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  • Thierry; Brusca, Richard C.; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Kirk, Paul M. (2015-04-29). "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms"....
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    punctigerae P. verrucosa Kühn 1996 Cavalier-Smith T (August 1998). "A revised six-kingdom system of life". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical...
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    Chrompodellida by posterior studies. Between 2004 and 2017, Cavalier-Smith retained the classification scheme of Apicomonadea, from which he excluded Perkinsida,...
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    Percolozoa (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
    2014. Phylum Percolozoa Cavalier-Smith 1991 Subphylum Pharyngomonada Cavalier-Smith 1991 Class Pharyngomonadea Cavalier-Smith 2008 [Macropharyngomonadidea]...
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    phylogenetic analysis of Hug (2016), the relationships could be the following. The following graph shows Cavalier-Smith's version of the tree of life, indicating...
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    Viridiplantae (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
    Thieme Verlag. ISBN 9783135511016. Cavalier-Smith, Tom (1981). "Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine?". Bio Systems. 14 (3–4): 461–481. doi:10.1016/0303-2647(81)90050-2...
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    Brusca, Richard C.; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Kirk, Paul M. (2015-06-11). "Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms"...
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