Pluriformea

Clade of unicellular organisms

Pluriformea

Corallochytrium

Syssomonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Clade:	Obazoa
(unranked):	Opisthokonta
(unranked):	Holozoa
Clade:	Pluriformea Hehenberger et al. 2017^[1]
Genera
Corallochytrium Syssomonas

Pluriformea is a proposed sibling clade of the Filozoa, and consists of Syssomonas multiformis and the Corallochytrea. Together with the Ichthyosporea they form the Holozoa.

An up to date cladogram is^[2]^[3]^[1]^[4]

Opisthokonta

Holomycota

Holozoa

Ichthyosporea

Pluriformea

	Syssomonas multiformis

	Corallochytrium

Tunicaraptor unikontum

Filozoa

Filasterea

Choanozoa

	Choanoflagellatea

	Animalia

The alternative hypotheses is the Teretosporea clade.

References

^ ^a ^b Hehenberger, Elisabeth; Tikhonenkov, Denis V.; Kolisko, Martin; Campo, Javier del; Esaulov, Anton S.; Mylnikov, Alexander P.; Keeling, Patrick J. (2017). "Novel Predators Reshape Holozoan Phylogeny and Reveal the Presence of a Two-Component Signaling System in the Ancestor of Animals". Current Biology. 27 (13): 2043–2050.e6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.006. PMID 28648822.
^ Parfrey, Laura Wegener; Lahr, Daniel J. G.; Knoll, Andrew H.; Katz, Laura A. (August 16, 2011). "Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108 (33): 13624–13629. doi:10.1073/pnas.1110633108. PMC 3158185. PMID 21810989.
^ Torruella, Guifré; de Mendoza, Alex; Grau-Bové, Xavier; Antó, Meritxell; Chaplin, Mark A.; del Campo, Javier; Eme, Laura; Pérez-Cordón, Gregorio; Whipps, Christopher M. (21 September 2015). "Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi". Current Biology. 25 (18): 2404–2410. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.053. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 26365255.
^ Tikhonenkov, Denis V.; Mikhailov, Kirill V.; Hehenberger, Elisabeth; Karpov, Sergei A.; Prokina, Kristina I.; Esaulov, Anton S.; Belyakova, Olga I.; Mazei, Yuri A.; Mylnikov, Alexander P.; Aleoshin, Vladimir V.; Keeling, Patrick J. (2020-11-06). "New Lineage of Microbial Predators Adds Complexity to Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origin of Animals". Current Biology. 30 (22): 4500–4509.e5. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.061. ISSN 0960-9822.