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, and other Opisthokonts.
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| 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  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Amorphea |
| Clade: | Obazoa |
| (unranked): | Opisthokonta |
| (unranked): | Holozoa |
| (unranked): | Filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008 |
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Three groups are in Filozoa: Filasterea, Choanoflagellatea, and Kingdom Animalia. Animalia is the most important one, which has all proper animals in it.
Evolution
The phylogenic tree (evolution tree) below shows how clades broke into newer clades. This includes Filozoa.
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References
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