Vampyrellida

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: Tsar
Cladus: Sar
Infraregnum: Rhizaria
Phylum: Endomyxa
Ordo: Vampyrellida
Familia: Vampyrellidae - Leptophryidae
Genera: Gobiella - Hyalodiscus - Lateromyxa - Leptophrys - Penardia - Platyreta - Thalassomyxa - Theratromyxa - Vampyrella

Vampyrellida G.S. West, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 29: 110. 1903

Similar groups

• Aconchulina de Saedeleer, 1934, Deflandre, 1953
• Aconchulinida Loeblich & Tappan, 1961
• Aconchulinia Page, 1987, pro parte
• Cristivesiculatida Page, 1987
• Cristivesiculatia Cavalier-Smith, 1993

Patterson, D. J. 1988. The evolution of Protozoa. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 83 (suppl. 1): 580–600, [1].

[Table 1. Major groups of protists distinguished by ultrastructural identity]

• Vampyrellida sedis mutabilis
  • Arachnula
  • Vampyrella

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Class Filosea

• Subclass Cristivesiculatia Page, 1987 stat. nov.
  • Order Vampyrellida Starobogatov ex Krylov et al., 1980

From The Diversity of Eukaryotes

In Eukaryotes
Clade Vampyrellids

• Arachnula
• Gobiella
• Hyalodiscus
• Leptomyxa
• Vampyrella
• Vampyrelloides

Hess, S., Sausen, N., Melkonian, M. (2012). Shedding Light on Vampires: The Phylogeny of Vampyrellid Amoebae Revisited. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31165.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031165, [2].

• Endomyxa
  • Order Vampyrellida West, 1901 emend. (Genera included: Gobiella, Hyalodiscus, Lateromyxa, Leptophrys, Platyreta, Theratromyxa, Vampyrella)
    • Family Vampyrellidae Zopf, 1885 emend. (Genera included: Vampyrella)
    • Family Leptophryidae Hess, Sausen et Melkonian fam. nov. (Type genus: Leptophrys; Other genera included: Theratromyxa, Platyreta)

• West, G.S. 1901. On some British freshwater rhizopods and Heliozoa. J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 28: 308–342.
• Gobi, C. (Гоби, Х.Я.) 1916 ["1915"]. Монографiя семейства Vampyrellaceae [Monographie de la famille des Vampyrellacées]. Botanicheskiya zapiski 15: iii–v, 1–463. (Russian) Google Books   Reference page.