User:Disgustedorite/sandbox/Protosagania descendant musing
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"Skeletal amoebas": Amoebas that have a cytoskeleton (possibly polyphyletic, will examine other characters later)
- Goliathpseudopodia
- Irisiri
- Saganchaos
- Lithoamoeba
- Membranae Infinitus
- Colony Cell
- Skarlix (Beta)
- Protoviramoeba endocyton (Beta)
- "Carpo-like"
- Carpotesta Pellícere
- Carpotesta Fúgere (Chloroplasts are likely endosymbiotic viridisaganians)
- Swamp Beans? Their hunting strategy bears striking resemblance to primitive carpotan bait proteins, and could represent an alternative course of evolution
"Non-skeletal amoebas": Amoebas described a lacking a cytoskeleton
"Squishy sessile consumers":
"Chitinous consumers"
"Sessile Photosynthesizers"
- Siliconium (beta): Likely outgroup
- "Soft leaf guys": Unwalled photosynthesizers
- "Chlorolaiseia": Chitin-walled photosynthesizers
- "Paraphysiophyta": Cellulose-walled photosynthesizers
"Kont-havers": Flagellates
- "Dikonts": Motile heterotrophs propelled by 2 or more posterior flagellae
- Trisphourus
- Teproutine
- Plent Fever
- Viridimancerxia (modified): Photosynthetic dikonts
- Protomancerxia Binarflagella
- Cryosagania
- Luminuseven
- Chlorocytus
- Flovar? (fin might be fused flagellae, but that would be a LOT of flagellae)
- Crocusism (though it resembles a krakocian, its flagellae are actually used in locomotion; it likely evolved radial symmetry)
- "Slurping things": Well-defined anterior probosci or similar, usually 3 flagellae but sometimes 2
- Sudisflutans
- Yanimalius Probisucker
- Cnidolium Simplistica
- Megaorthoceros Segnoneustes
- Padler (could be closely related to megaorthoceros but lost the proboscis)
"Feeding threads": Organisms with thread-like structures involved in feeding, sometimes called flagellae but probably not flagellae
- Protokrakocia Pentapseudoflagellis
- Sting Cell
- Beadline
- Nimbus: Though photosynthetic, its fronds seem directly involved in said photosynthesis (thus making them feeding structures) and don't resemble the flagellae of viridisaganians. Also, UV light photosynthesis with a pigment invisible to the naked eye implies a novel development.
"Ciliates": Ciliates
- Ciliognathus
- Scalong
- Flovar? (has viridisaganian-like characteristics, but the fin could be fused cilia, like similar structures irl)
"Purple": Purple photosynthesizers
- Hexapodia
- Photosagnia (Beta)
- Algaaquila? (If the underlying pigment is purple, we have more freedom when explaining how they're black)
Sulfur lovers:
Methane Lovers:
Unknown affiliation: Organisms with no obvious characteristics connecting them to other groups
- Protosammea Massa
- Ferrumcarcer
- Radiodurans Maximae
- Silex Praevius
- Micro Fort: Explicitly developed metal ion chemosynthesis independently of ferrumcarcer
- Lituswush (Beta): Could be related to ferrumcarcer due to use of metal ion chemosynthesis, but other characters are Really novel
- Methanosagania (Beta): Characters make it very novel