Filozoa
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The Filozoa are a monophyletic grouping within the Opisthokonta. They include animals and their nearest unicellular relatives (organisms which are more closely related to animals than to fungi or Mesomycetozoa).
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The Filozoa are a monophyletic grouping within the Opisthokonta. They include animals and their nearest unicellular relatives (organisms which are more closely related to animals than to fungi or Mesomycetozoa).
Three groups are currently included within the clade Filozoa: Group Filasterea - recently described to include the genera Ministeria and Capsaspora Group Choanoflagellatea - collared flagellates Kingdom Animalia - the group of which all extant animals belong to
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Filozoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.