| Opalinata | |
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| Opalina ranarum, a species of Opalinea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Bigyra |
| Infraphylum: | Placidozoa |
| Superclass: | Opalinata Wenyon, 1926 em. Cavalier-Smith, 1996 stat. n. 2006[1] |
| Classes[1] | |
Wikispecies has information related to Opalinata.
Opalinata is a superclass of non-phagotrophic heterokonts that unites the classes Opalinea and Blastocystea, and is the sister group to Opalomonadea.[1]
- ^ a b c Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Scoble, Josephine Margaret (2012). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.