Diphylleidae

Diphylleidae (also Collodictyonidae) is a group of aquatic, unicellular eukaryotic organisms with two to four terminal flagella. They feed by phagocytosis, ingesting other unicellular organisms like algae and bacteria. It is the sister group of Sulcomonadidae.^[2]

Diphylleidae
Collodictyon triciliatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	CRuMs
Class:	Diphyllatea
Order:	Diphylleida
Family:	Diphylleidae Cavalier-Smith 1993
Genera
Collodictyon Diphylleia
Synonyms
"Collodictyonidae" Brugerolle et al. 2002[1]

Recent molecular analyses place collodictyonids (e.g. Collodictyon) in a clade also containing Rigifilida and Mantamonadidae. This clade has been named CRuMs and is sister to Amorphea.^[3][4]

Phylogeny

Opimoda

Ancyromonadida Cavalier-Smith 1998 emend. Atkins 2000 Malawimonadea Cavalier-Smith 2003 Podiata Amorphea Amoebozoa Lühe 1913 emend. Cavalier-Smith 1998 Obazoa Breviatea Cavalier-Smith 2004 Apusomonadida Karpov & Mylnikov 1989 Opisthokonta CRuMs[4] Mantamonadida Cavalier-Smith 2004 Glissandrida Yazaki et al. 2025[5] Rigifilida Karpov & Mylnikov 1989 Diphylleida Diphylleidae Cavalier-Smith 1993 Sulcomonadidae Cavalier-Smith 2013

Taxonomy

• Family Diphylleidae Cavalier-Smith 1993 ["Collodictyonidae" Brugerolle et al. 2002]
  • Genus Diphylleia Massart 1920 non Michaux 1803 [Aulacomonas Skuja 1939]
    • Species D. rotans Massart 1920 [Aulacomonas submarina Skuja 1939]
  • Genus Collodictyon Carter 1865
    • Species C. hongkongense Skvortzov 1968
    • Species C. indicum Iyengar 1981
    • Species C. oxycareni Franchini 1922
    • Species C. sparsevacuolatum Skuja 1956
    • Species C. triciliatum Carter 1865