Heterolobosea

Heterolobosea
The three different stages of N. fowleri
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Discoba
Superphylum: Discicristata
Phylum: Heterolobosea
Page & Blanton, 1985
Classes
  • Pharyngomonada
    • Pharyngomonadea
  • Tetramitia
    • Selenaionea
    • Eutetramitea
Diversity
~170 species
Synonyms
  • Percolozoa Cavalier-Smith, 1991
  • Acrasiomycota Whittaker 1969
  • Amoeboflagellates
  • Pseudociliata Cavalier-Smith 1993
  • Schizopyrenia
  • Tetramitozoa Dillon 1963
  • Stephanopogonophyta Doweld 2001
  • Stephanopogonomorpha Sleigh et al. 1984

Heterolobosea or Percolozoa, commonly known as amoebomastigotes, is a phylum of protists including many amoeboflagellates. Naegleria fowleri, the causative agent of the often fatal disease amoebic meningitis, is the only member of this phylum infectious to humans. Typically, their life cycle alternates between flagellate and amoeboid stages.

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