Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow (21 October 1942 – 19 March 2021), was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department...
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Archezoa (section Archezoa sensu Cavalier-Smith (1987))
Anton Maximilian Perty, Ernst Haeckel and in the 20th century by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in his classification system. Each author used the name to refer...
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version of a classification system of life by British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith appeared in 1978. This initial system continued to be modified in...
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has all but vanished. Some prominent scientists, such as the late Thomas Cavalier-Smith, still hold and held to the two-empire system. The late Ernst Mayr...
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Cryptista (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
by Cavalier-Smith, Chao & Lewis 2015 Corbihelia Clade Microheliellida Tedersoo 2017 [Endohelia Cavalier-Smith 2015] Clade Endohelea Cavalier-Smith 2012...
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Chromista (section Chromista (Cavalier-Smith, 1981))
British biologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1981 to distinguish the stramenopiles, haptophytes, and cryptophytes. According to Cavalier-Smith, the kingdom originally...
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Euglenozoa (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
Plicomonada Cavalier-Smith 2017 Infraphylum Postgaardia Cavalier-Smith 2016 stat. nov. Cavalier-Smith 2017 Class Postgaardea Cavalier-Smith 1998 s.s. [Symbiontida...
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scheme of Thomas Cavalier-Smith, although it primarily differs in that Protista is replaced by Protozoa and Chromista. Thomas Cavalier-Smith supported...
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Archamoebae (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
freshwater, and marine habitats. The group Archamoebae was proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1998 as part of the Archezoa, a newly-proposed group to include...
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Excavata (category Taxa named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith)
Patterson in 1999 and the name latinized and assigned a rank by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 2002. It contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic protists...
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