🧫 Protists ID

Amoeba

Phylum: Unikota
Amoeabazoan

Freeliving/Parasitic Heterotroph

Unicellular

Amorphous
Blunt Pseudopod

Naegleria fowleri
Entamoeba

Trypanasoma

Phylum: Excavata

Euglenazoans

Parasitic Heterotroph (Intercellular)

African Sleeping Sickness
Kinteoplast

Euglena

Phylum: Excavata
Euglenazoans

Freeliving Mixotroph

Unicellular

Flexible Pellicle (motility)
Modified Mitochondria

Chara

Archaeplastida
Green Algae
Charophytes

Freeliving Autotroph

Complex Multicellular

Macroscopic Algae
Plasmodesmata
Thallus

Spirogyra

Archaeplastida
Green Algae
Charophytes

Freeliving Autotroph

Filamentous

Spiral Chloroplast

Desmid

Archaeplastida
Green Algae
Charophytes

Freeliving Autotroph

Unicellular

Semicells
Nueclus in ithmus (space between semi cells)

Volvox

Archaeplastida
Green Algae
Clorophytes

Freeliving Autotroph

Colonial

Daughter colonies
Coenobium (hollow colony of cells)

Ulva

Archaeplastida
Green Algae
Clorophytes

Freeliving Autotroph

Simple Multicellular

Marcoscopic Algae
Thallus

Diatom (Diatoma)

SAR Clade
Stramenopile

Freeliving Autotroph

Unicellular

Pennate and Centric shapes
Silicous Frustule

Dinoflagellates (Ceratium, Peridinium)

SAR Clade
Alveolates

Freeliving Autotroph, Heterotroph, or Mixotroph

Unicellular

Cellulose Plates
Red Tides
Transverse Flagellum

Paramecium

SAR Clade
Alveolates
Cilliates

Freeliving Heterotroph

Unicellular

Cillia
Macro & Micronucleus

Formenifera (Paullinella)

SAR Clade
Rhizarians

Freeliving Heterotroph

Unicellular

Calcium Carbonate tests
Thread-like pseudopods

Unikota

Amoeba

(Closest to Fungi and Animals)

Excavata

Trypanasoma
Euglena

Archiplastida

Charophytes
Chara

Desmids
Spirogyra

Chlorophytes
Ulva
Volvox

Closest to Plants

SAR Clade

Stremenopiles
Alveolates

Rhizarians

Stramenopiles

Diatoms

Alveolates

Dinoflagelates
Cilliates

Rhizarians

Formenifera