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Crown clade:
"
Opisthokonta
"
Cavalier-Smith 1987, nom. cl. inval.
(eukaryote)
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Entity:
[Amorphea] (Clade)
..[Amoebozoa] (Supergroup)
..[Ancyromonadida]
..[Apusomonadida]
..[Opisthokonta] (Supergroup) - opisthokonts
..[Opisthokonta] (Division)
..[Opisthokonta] (Clade)
....[DRIPs]
....[Holomycota]
....[Holozoa] (Clade)
....[†Vendobionta] (Kingdom)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
Cavalier-Smith, 1987, nom. cl. praeinit.
Original clade name & spelling
:
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1987a.
In
A.D.M. Rayner, C.M. Brasier & D. Moore (eds.),
Evolutionary Biology of the Fungi
. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
: 344 (fig. 23.2: "clade").
Subsequent publication
:
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1987b.
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.
503
(1)
: 22 (fig. 1: "clade").
Etymology
Derived name
:
Obazoa
(Clade)
Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
Ref:
M.W. Brown et al., 2013
: 7.
[
new
]
Attributes
Pre-starting-point clade name (nom. cl. inval.[: praeinit.]) [PhyloCode: Note 6.2.1 ([1984-]<2020)]
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present.
Syst. Nat. 2000
: 3 Aug 2023.
Variants
Ranked name
:
Opisthokonta
(Supergroup)
Cavalier-Smith, 1987
Rank-based name
:
Opisthokonta
(Division)
Cavalier-Smith, 1987
Ref:
L. Tedersoo et al., 2018
: 147.
[inferred]
Established (clade) name
:
Opisthokonta
(Clade)
Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020]
Ref:
A.G.B. Simpson & M. Medina, 2020
: [103].
[implicit]
Synonyms
Vernacular name
:
opisthokonts
([unranked])
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28 Aug 2026