Members of the Unikonta, a taxonomic group proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith

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Amorphea

<p><b>Amorphea</b><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Adl2012_1-1"><a href="#cite_note-Adl2012-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> are members of a taxonomic supergroup that includes the basal <a href="/en/Amoebozoa" title="Amoebozoa" class="wl">Amoebozoa</a> and <a href="/en/Obazoa" title="Obazoa" class="wl">Obazoa</a>. That latter contains the <a href="/en/Opisthokont" title="Opisthokont" class="wl">Opisthokonta</a>, which includes the <a href="/en/Fungus" title="Fungus" class="wl">Fungi</a>, <a href="/en/Animal" title="Animal" class="wl">Animals</a> and the Choanomonada, or <a href="/en/Choanoflagellate" title="Choanoflagellate" class="wl">Choanoflagellates</a>. The taxonomic affinities of the members of this clade were originally described and proposed by <a href="/en/Thomas_Cavalier-Smith" title="Thomas Cavalier-Smith" class="wl">Thomas Cavalier-Smith</a> in 2002.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-pmid11931142_2-1"><a href="#cite_note-pmid11931142-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="#cite_note-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[4]</span></a></span></p>

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<th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(245,215,255)" class="notheme">Amorphea<br><div style="font-size: 85%;">Temporal range: Early <a href="/en/Ectasian" title="Ectasian" class="wl">Ectasian</a> - <a href="/en/Holocene" title="Holocene" class="wl">Present</a>, <div class="noprint"><span style="display:inline-block;">1400–0<span>&nbsp;</span>Ma</span> <div id="Timeline-row" style="margin: 4px auto 0; clear:both; width:250px; padding:0px; height:18px; overflow:visible; border:1px #666; border-style:solid none; font-size:small; position:relative; z-index:0;">
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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 88%">Clockwise, from top left: <i><a href="/en/Abeoforma_whisleri" title="Abeoforma whisleri" class="wl">Abeoforma whisleri</a></i> (<a href="/en/Ichthyosporea" title="Ichthyosporea" class="mw-redirect wl">Ichthyosporea</a>); <i><a href="/en/Amanita_muscaria" title="Amanita muscaria" class="wl">Amanita muscaria</a></i> (<a href="/en/Fungi" title="Fungi" class="mw-redirect wl">Fungi</a>); <i><a href="/en/Desmarella_moniliformis" title="Desmarella moniliformis" class="wl">Desmarella moniliformis</a></i> (<a href="/en/Choanoflagellatea" title="Choanoflagellatea" class="mw-redirect wl">Choanoflagellatea</a>); <a href="/en/Bonnet_Macaque" title="Bonnet Macaque" class="mw-redirect wl">Bonnet Macaque</a> (<a href="/en/Metazoa" title="Metazoa" class="mw-redirect wl">Metazoa</a>); <i><span class="new">Nuclearia thermophila</span></i> (<a href="/en/Nucleariida" title="Nucleariida" class="wl">Nucleariida</a>); <i><a href="/en/Amoeba_proteus" title="Amoeba proteus" class="wl">Amoeba proteus</a></i> (<a href="/en/Amoebozoa" title="Amoebozoa" class="wl">Amoebozoa</a>)</td></tr>


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<td>Domain:</td>
<td><a href="/en/Eukaryote" title="Eukaryote" class="wl">Eukaryota</a></td></tr>
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<td><a href="/en/Amorphea" title="Amorphea" class="wl">Amorphea</a><br><small>Adl <i>et al.</i>, 2012<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Adl2012_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-Adl2012-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></small></td></tr>



































































































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<ul><li><a href="/en/Obazoa" title="Obazoa" class="wl">Obazoa</a>
<ul><li><a href="/en/Breviata" title="Breviata" class="wl">Breviata</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Apusomonadida" title="Apusomonadida" class="wl">Apusomonadida</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Opisthokonts" title="Opisthokonts" class="mw-redirect wl">Opisthokonts</a></li></ul></li>
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<ul><li><b>Unikonta</b> <small><i><a href="/en/Nomen_nudum" title="Nomen nudum" class="wl">nom. nud.</a></i></small><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-pmid11931142_2-0"><a href="#cite_note-pmid11931142-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></li>
<li><b><a href="/en/Opimoda" title="Opimoda" class="mw-redirect wl">Opimoda</a></b> <small>Derelle et al., 2015</small><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span></li></ul></td></tr>


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<p>The International Society of Protistologists, the recognised body for taxonomy of protozoa, recommended in 2012 that the term Unikont be changed to Amorphea because the name "Unikont" is based on a hypothesized <a href="/en/Synapomorphy" title="Synapomorphy" class="mw-redirect wl">synapomorphy</a> that the ISP authors and other scientists later rejected.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Adl2012_1-2"><a href="#cite_note-Adl2012-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Roger2009_5-0"><a href="#cite_note-Roger2009-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[5]</span></a></span></p>

<p>It includes <a href="/en/Amoebozoa" title="Amoebozoa" class="wl">amoebozoa</a>, <a href="/en/Opisthokont" title="Opisthokont" class="wl">opisthokonts</a>,<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-pmid19004754_6-0"><a href="#cite_note-pmid19004754-6" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[6]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-pmid16829542_7-0"><a href="#cite_note-pmid16829542-7" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[7]</span></a></span> and possibly <a href="/en/Apusozoa" title="Apusozoa" class="wl">Apusozoa</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-pmid20884290_8-0"><a href="#cite_note-pmid20884290-8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[8]</span></a></span></p>



Amorphea The International Society of Protistologists, the recognised body for taxonomy of protozoa, recommended in 2012 that the term Unikont be changed to Amorphea because the name "Unikont" is based on a hypothesized synapomorphy that the ISP authors and other scientists later rejected. 