Schizopyrenida

Schizopyrenida is an order of Heterolobosea.^[1]

Schizopyrenida
Different stages of Naegleria fowleri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Percolozoa
Class:	Heterolobosea
Order:	Schizopyrenida Edward Drinker Cope 1871
Subdivisions
Vahlkampfiidae (Vahlkampfiida) ?Psalteriomonadidae ?Gruberellidae (Gruberellida)
Synonyms
?Amoebomastigota Naegleriida Starobogatov 1980

It contains Naegleria fowleri.^[2]

Phylogeny

The cladogram from Tolweb and updated by Pánek and Čepička 2014 and family names from Cavalier-Smith 2021.^[3][4] It assumes that Schizopyrenida has four families under it: Tulamoebidae, Naegleriidae, Vahlkampfiidae, and Percolomonadida

	Heterolobosea Schizopyrenida Tulamoebidae Pleurostomum Tulamoeba Marinamoeba Naegleriidae Naegleria Willaertia Vahlkampfiidae Tetramitus Vahlkampfia Percolomonadida Stephanopogonidae Stephanopogon Percolomonadidae Percolomonas Hohlfeld 2023 Cope 1871 Page & Blanton 1985

References

1. Roger AJ; Smith MW; Doolittle RF; Doolittle WF (1996). "Evidence for the Heterolobosea from phylogenetic analysis of genes encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 43 (6): 475–85. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1996.tb04507.x. PMID 8976605. S2CID 552047.
2. Schizopyrenida at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
3. Pánek, Tomáš; Ptáčková, Eliška; Čepička, Ivan (2014). "Survey on diversity of marine/saline anaerobic Heterolobosea (Excavata: Discoba) with description of seven new species". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64 (Pt 7): 2280–2304. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.063487-0. PMID 24729392.
4. Cavalier-Smith T (December 2021). "Ciliary transition zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi". Protoplasma. 259 (3): 487–593. doi:10.1007/s00709-021-01665-7. PMC 9010356. PMID 34940909.