In the classification of
eukaryote
Eukaryotes () are organisms whose cells have a nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the three domains of life. Bact ...
s (living organisms with a cell nucleus), Cabozoa was a
taxon
In biology, a taxon ( back-formation from '' taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular n ...
proposed by
Cavalier-Smith.
It was a putative
clade comprising the
Rhizaria and
Excavata. More recent research tends to place the
Rhizaria with the
Alveolata and
heterokonts instead of the Excavata, however.
See also
*
Corticata
Corticata ("one with a cortex"), in the classification of eukaryotes (living organisms with a cell nucleus), is a clade suggested by Thomas Cavalier-Smith
to encompass the eukaryote supergroups of the following two groups:
* Plantae, or Archa ...
References
Obsolete eukaryote taxa
Bikont unranked clades
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