Platysulcidae

Platysulcidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
Superphylum: Heterokont
Class: Platysulca
Order: Platysulcida
Family: Platysulcidae
Genus: Platysulcus
Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015
Species
  • P. tardus Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015

Platysulcidae is a monotypic family of protist that was recently discovered to be the earliest diverging lineage of the Heterokont phylogenetic tree.[1]

Taxonomy

References

  1. Shiratori, Takashi; Nakayama, Takeshi; Ishida, Ken-ichiro (2015). "A New Deep-branching Stramenopile, Platysulcus tardus gen. nov., sp. nov.". Protist. 166 (3): 337–348. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2015.05.001. ISSN 1434-4610.

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