Craspedida

Craspedida
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Scientific classification
Class:	Choanoflagellatea
Order:	Craspedida; Cavalier-Smith, 1997, emend. Nitsche et al. 2011
Families
	Codonosigidae; Salpingoecidae;

Craspedida is an order of choanoflagellate, with members with an exclusively organic covering.

Craspedid genera[]

Salpingoeca rosetta[]

S. rosetta has been named for the rosette-shaped colonies formed by its cells. Recent studies show a bacterial sulfonolipid, called rosette inducing factor (RIF-1) produced by Algoriphagus machipongonensis triggers colony formation in S. rosetta.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

Extended phylogeny of the Craspedida (Choanomonada). Alexandra Jeuck, Hartmut Arndt and Frank Nitsche, European Journal of Protistology, Volume 50, Issue 4, August 2014, Pages 430–443, doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2014.06.001

External links[]

Media related to Craspedida at Wikimedia Commons
'Craspedida at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

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