Concise hierarchy

(Domain) Eukaryota - (Phylum) Metamonada - (Class) Trichomonadea - (Order) Cristamonadida

Original position

Polymastigina (Order) Blochmann

Ref: Grassi, B. (& Foà, A.), 1911: 727.

Original entries

Calonympha (Genus) Foà, 1905		Ref: Grassi, B. (& Foà, A.), 1911: 730.
Microrhopalodina (Genus) Grassi, 1911		Ref: Grassi, B. (& Foà, A.), 1911: 730.

Subsequent entries

Criconympha (Genus) Dolan & Kirby, 2002
Gyronympha (Genus) Dolan & Kirby, 2002
Prosnyderella (Genus) Dolan & Kirby, 2002

Current position

Cristamonadida (Order) Brugerolle & Patterson, 2001

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 1 (p. 121). [new position]

Alternative positions

Polymastigina (Order) Blochmann	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 584.
Trichomonadida (Order) Kirby, 1947	Ref: G. Brugerolle & J.J. Lee, 2000: 1218.

Historical positions

Cristamonadida (Order) Brugerolle & Patterson, 2001	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 1 (p. 121). [new position]
Trichomonadida (Order) Kirby, 1947	Ref: G. Brugerolle & J.J. Lee, 2000: 1218.
Trichomonadida (Order) Kirby, 1947	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998: 121.
Trichomonadida (Order) Kirby, 1947	Ref: K. Vickerman, 1982: 505.
Trichomonadida (Order) Kirby, 1947	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 88.
Polymastigina (Order) Blochmann	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 584.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	13g;10s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 21 Sep 2015	[13g]
2000	G. Brugerolle & J.J. Lee: 1218	6g
1982	K. Vickerman	[6g]