User:Disgustedorite/sandbox/Protosagania descendant musing

"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

• Sceletus Praetereo

"Squishy sessile consumers":

• Penitoflora Coli
• Microplaque

"Chitinous consumers"

• Binucleusdetritivorus
• Morsus Turpis
• Salmundus

"Sessile Photosynthesizers"

• Siliconium (beta): Likely outgroup
• "Soft leaf guys": Unwalled photosynthesizers

• Tankargus
• Sunfeeder

• "Chlorolaiseia": Chitin-walled photosynthesizers

• Binucleusphotoedo
• Solumcrusta

• "Paraphysiophyta": Cellulose-walled photosynthesizers

• Flash Cell
• Microdendron
• Crescofons Orgapertraho
• Brown Basilliphyta

"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:

• Protohydroia Octherma
• Placoball
• Hydrothermus

Methane Lovers:

• Swamp Fibres
• Methanophagus

Unknown affiliation: Organisms with no obvious characteristics connecting them to other groups

• Protosammea Massa
• Swamp Fibres
• 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