| Retaria | |
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| Live Ammonia tepida | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Supergroup: | Rhizaria |
| Clade: | Retaria Cavalier-Smith 1999 |
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Retaria is a clade within the supergroup Rhizaria containing the Foraminifera and the Radiolaria. In 2019, the Retaria were recognized as a basal Rhizaria group, as sister of the Cercozoa.
In 2018, Cavalier-Smith called this group Ectoreta and grouped it with Endomyxa and called this new grouping Retaria instead. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2018 proposed to exclude Sticholonchea from Radiozoa and proposed this scheme instead:
Exclusion of Endomyxa from Cercozoa was challenged in 2019. Retaria is generally divided into two phyla Foraminifera and Radiolaria.
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