Eukarya diversity icons
digital artwork, 2016
fully arranged in the ‘Opuntia of Life’ / see further works of the New Cryptogams / some used for Stramenopiles research history
Many trees and overviews have been offered to demonstrate the diversity and interrelationships of extant life forms. As usual, nearly every authorship presents an own hypothesis. Besides that, the richness of shapes and strategies remains impressive. It reminds us of the fact that all familiar groups, like plants, fungi or animals, are just islands of greater awareness within a much broader context. When it comes to phylogeny and endosymbiosis, things are getting crazy…
First row: Amoebozoa / Rhodophyta (red alga) / Chlorophyta (Volvox & Chlamydomonas) / Marchantiophyta (liverwort) / Radiolaria / Cnidaria (anthozoan animal) / Geosiphon / Anthocerophyta (hornwort) / Bryophyta (moss) / Chrysophyceae
Second (short) row: Charophyceae / Cryptista / Dinoflagellata / Ciliophora / Euglenida
Third (full) row: Haptista (coccolitophores) / Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) / Phaeophyta (seaweed) / Foraminifera / Chlorarachniophyta / Glaucophyta / Ulvophyceae (Sea lettuce) / Xanthophyceae / Trebouxiophyceae
Last row: Ascomycota (sac fungi) / lichenised ascomycete / Basidiomycota (higher fungi) / lichenised basidiomycete / bilaterian animal / Trachaeophyta (vascular plants) / monocellular phaeophyte alga / Paulinellidae / Eustigmatophyceae / evosean amoeba