Kingdom Protista Flashcards
Phylum Rhizopoda (Naked Amoeba)
Test: None
Locomotion: Pseudopodia
Common Name: Amoeba proteus
Phylum Actinopoda (Amoeba)
Test: Silicon dioxide (internal)
Locomotion: Pseudopodia
Common Name: Radiolarians, Radiozoa, Heliozoans
Phylum Foraminifera (Amoeba)
Test: delicate calcium carbonate
Locomotion: pseudopodia
Common Name: Foraminiferans
Phylum Kinetoplastida (Protozoa)
Locomotion: flagella
Common Name: Trypanosoma
Causes African Sleeping Sickness transmitted through tsetse fly.
Phylum Oomycota
Common Name: Water Molds
Locomotion: Flagella
Phylum Ciliophora
Common Name: Paramecium caudatum
Locomotion: cilia
Phylum Apicomplexa
Common Name: Plasmodium
Locomotion: No true means of locomotion
Cause malaria transmitted through mosquitoes
Phylum Myxogastida (Slime Molds)
Common Name: Physarum
Locomotion:
Multi-nucleated
Plasmodial slime mold
Phylum Dictyostelida (Slime Molds)
Form an aggregation when there is no food.
Cellular slime mold
Phylum Euglenophyta
Common Name: Euglena
Locomotion: Flagella
Known to be green in color. Fresh water autotroph often found in pond water.
Phylum Dinoflagellata
Common Name: Dinoflagellates
Locomotion: Flagella
Know for causing red tides - massive fish kills and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
Phylum Bacillariophyta
Common Name: Diatom
Locomotion: flagella
Typically brown or yellow. Diatom fossils collectively form “diatomaceous earth.”
Phylum Phaeophyta
Brown algae.
Accessory pigment: fucoxanthin
Common Name: Laminaria (a type of kelp), Sargassum
Phylum Rhodophyta
Red algae.
Accessory pigment(s): phycocyanin and phycoerythrin
Common Name: Agardhiella
Phylum Chlorophyta
Green algae.
Accessory pigment: chlorophyll b
Common Name: Volvox, Ulva, Spirogyra
