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Taxon: Species Tetrahymena thermophila Nanney & McCoy, 1976 (protist)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Chromista - (Phylum) Ciliophora - (Class) Oligohymenophorea - (Order) Tetrahymenida - (Family) Tetrahymenidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

*Sar* (Clade) Adl et al. 2012		Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 431, table 2 (p. 453).
*Sar* (Clade) Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson & Dunthorn 2020]		Ref: A.G.B. Simpson & M. Dunthorn, 2020: [51].

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Diaphoretickes ([unranked]) Adl et al., 2012

Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 431.

Excluded, by qualifying clause, from node-based clade

*Amorphea* (Clade) Adl et al. 2012, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 430.
*Rhizaria* (Clade) Cavalier-Smith 2002 [Simpson 2020]		Ref: A.G.B. Simpson, 2020: [61].
*Stramenopila* (Clade) Alexopoulos, Mims & Blackwell 1996 [Simpson & Dunthorn 2020]		Ref: A.G.B. Simpson & M. Dunthorn, 2020: [55].

Current position

Tetrahymena (Genus) Furgason, 1940

Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 430.

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