Myastone16

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:11, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Entamoeba polecki

Hi, Myastone16. It's great that you're working to improve Entamoeba polecki. The article could certainly use some help! However, the classification you've added is very outdated. Sarcomastigophora is a disused taxon, and organisms such as Entamoeba are no longer included in Kingdom Animalia, but are usually placed within the "supergroup" Amoebozoa. Also, entamoebids are currently placed in the group Conosa, rather than Lobosa (both ranked at subphylum level, by Thomas Cavalier-Smith). See: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x and http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 .

Note that taxonomic information of this kind is normally placed in the taxobox, at the top right of the article, and not within the text. More on taxoboxes, here: Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox.

Good luck, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Deuterostome (Talk) 02:18, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi again, Myastone16. You mentioned on Talk:Entamoeba polecki that you're having trouble finding a reference for the taxonomy of this organism. You might have a look at the classification used by the World Registry of Marine Species: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=761251 That taxonomy is consistent with recent phylogenetic work on Amoebozoa by Cavalier-Smith and his collaborators: http://www.academia.edu/11924192/Multigene_phylogeny_resolves_deep_branching_of_Amoebozoa The placement of entamoebids within Archamoeba (under Amoebozoa) is widely accepted. However, note that the use of "Kingdom Protozoa" is controversial, since that taxon is paraphyletic. The strictly cladistic system used in Adl et al., 2012 (which I linked, above) places Amoebozoa and its sister-clade Obazoa in the group Amorphea. Deuterostome (Talk) 13:02, 7 May 2018 (UTC)