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Protozoans
General Characteristics
Form
Organelles
Chromoplast
Stigma/eyespot
Pharyngeal rods/trichites
Contractile vacuole
Trichocyst
Nucleus
Nutrition
Locomotion
Encyxtment and
Excystments
Sensory responses
Taxonomic Classification
Discicristates
Phylum
Parabasala
Phylum
Euglenozoa
The
Diplomonad
& Oxymonads
The Amoebozoa
Phylum Mastigamoeba
Phylum Eumycetozoa
Kingdom Protozoa
Phylum Euglenozoa
The Opisthokont
Phylum Heterolobosea
The Excavata
Phylum Metamonada
- The Diplomonads
The Oxymonads
Phylum Parabasala
Phylum Parabasala
are anaerobic flagellated
protozoa
contain at least one parabasal
apparatus consisting of a
parabasal body (Golgi complex)
and a parabasal filament
presence of the microtubular
axostyle-pelta complex,
composed of a sheet of crosslinked microtubules that are
the longitudinal axis of the cell.
Phylum Parabasala
Lack mitochondria
and peroxisome
Presence of
hydrogenosomes
Class Trichomonada
Most are parasites or
endosymbionts of
other animals
4-6 flagella
With pelta and
axostyle
Trichomonas vaginalis
Class Hypermastigia
Numerous flagella
With multiple parabasal
apparatus
flagella-bearing
kinetosomes distributed
in complete or partial
circles
Phylum Metamonada
Oxymonads and diplomonads
lack mitochondria
possess flagella and basal bodies associated
with nucleus
The Diplomonads
Parasitic
2 nuclei
1-4 flagella per nucleus
lack mitochondria and
golgi apparatus
Mitosomes
with cyst
The Oxymonads
Found in gut of termites
and wood-eating insects
Lack mitochondria and
golgi apparatus
Phylum Euglenozoa
have
chlorophylls
a
Mitochondria have
and
b
and
an
envelope
discoid cristae
of three membranes
Peroxisomes and
glycosomes are absent
Class Euglenoida
Pellicle
with 2 (rarely more)
flagella, one or more
emerging from the
gullet
with green
chloroplasts (chl a & b)
but absent in many
genera
Class Kinetoplastea
Kinetoplast
Possess 1-2 flagella
Free-living, symbiotic or
parasitic
Polymorphism in Flagellates
Trypomastigote stage
Epimastigote stage
Promastigote stage
Amastigote stage
Phylum Heterolobosea
Opisthokonts
Phylum Choanozoa
Three groups:
Mesomycetozoa
Filasterea
Choanoflagellates