Filozoa

monophyletic grouping within the Opisthokonta

Filozoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor) that is in the Opisthokonta clade. It includes animals, and their close single-celled relatives. These relatives are more closely related to animals than they are to fungi,[1] and other Opisthokonts.

Filozoa
Temporal range: Late Tonian - Present, 782.2–0 Ma
Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
Clade: Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked): Holozoa
(unranked): Filozoa
Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008
Subgroups

Three groups are in Filozoa: Filasterea, Choanoflagellatea, and Kingdom Animalia. Animalia is the most important one, which has all proper animals in it.

Evolution

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The phylogenic tree (evolution tree) below shows how clades broke into newer clades. This includes Filozoa.

Opisthokonta
Holomycota
Cristidiscoidea

Fonticulida



Nucleariida  



Fungi/Zoosporia

BCG2





True Fungi  



Aphelida





BCG1


Rozellomyceta/

Rozella  




Namako-37



Microsporidia 








Holozoa

Ichthyosporea  



Pluriformea

Syssomonas



Corallochytrium  



Filozoa

Filasterea  


Choanozoa

Choanoflagellate  



Animalia  








References

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  1. Shalchian-Tabrizi K.; Minge M.A.; Espelund M. (7 May 2008). Aramayo, Rodolfo (ed.). "Multigene phylogeny of choanozoa and the origin of animals". PLOS ONE. 3 (5): e2098. Bibcode:2008PLoSO...3.2098S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002098. PMC 2346548. PMID 18461162.