Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Chromista - (Phylum) Ciliophora - (Class) Oligohymenophorea - (Order) Urocentrida - (Family) Parameciidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Corticata (Superkingdom) Lankester, 1878

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2015: 357.

Current position

Parameciidae (Family) Dujardin, 1840

Ref: D. Lynn, 2002: 24 Apr 2002.

Alternative positions

Epiplasmata (Subphylum) de Puytorac et al., 1992	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 233. [rough position]
Peniculia ([unranked]) Fauré-Fremiet, 1956	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2005: 438.

Historical positions

Peniculia ([unranked]) Fauré-Fremiet, 1956	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2005: 438.
Oligohymenophorea (Class) de Puytorac et al., 1974	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2004: table 4.1 (p. 78). [rough position]
Parameciidae (Family) Dujardin, 1840	Ref: D.H. Lynn & E.B. Small, 2000[2002]: 583.
Epiplasmata (Subphylum) de Puytorac et al., 1992	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: table 3 (p. 233). [rough position]
Peniculida (Subclass) Fauré-Fremiet, 1956	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998: 138, 139. [rough position]
Hymenostomatia (Subclass) (Delage & Hérouard, 1896) Cavalier-Smith, 1993	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Oligohymenophorans (Class)	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 112. [rough position]
Parameciidae (Family) Dujardin, 1840	Ref: J.O. Corliss, 1982: 617, 624, pl.63.
Hymenostomatida (Order) Delage & Hérouard, 1896	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

10s