Diplomonadida
Translingual
Etymology
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Proper noun
Diplomonadida
- A taxonomic order within the class Eopharyngea – small heterotrophic protists with no mitochondria, most found principally in the intestines of animals, where the are parasitic and cause disease; thought to form one of the earliest branches of eukaryote evolution.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Eozoa - subkingdom; Excavata - infrakingdom; Metamonada - phylum; Eopharyngea - class
Hyponyms
- (order): Enteromonadidae; Hexamitidae - families
See also
- Fornicata
References
Diplomonad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Diplozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Distomatida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Diplomonadida at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Diplomonadida at Encyclopedia of Life
- Diplomonadida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521