Welcome to WikiProject Protista! This is a collaboration group created to improve Wikipedia's coverage and organization of information about the eukaryotic organisms known as protists or protoctists, from which all other eukaryotes have evolved: plants, fungi and animals.
This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and take on an open task from the to-do list. You can also add a task where work is needed on protist articles.
Scope and goals
This project's scope is all articles regarding all eukaryotic organisms known as protists, belonging to kingdoms Protozoa and Chromista, as well as the science of Protistology and the evolution of eukaryotes. The project provides a central location for all participants interested. Our objective is to improve the quality of every protist taxon page, and add the corresponding {{Automatic taxobox}} to describe its relationship with other eukaryote groups. The concrete long-term goals are:
- Creating pages for every protist taxon (species, genus, family...) that does not already exist on Wikipedia.
- Assuring that all pages have at least start-level quality, above stub-level.
- Creating the corresponding taxonomy templates.
- Updating the Taxonomy of Protista as accurately as possible.
For more informaton, this page shows important articles that fall under our scope.
Article formatting
The default layout for new articles about a specific taxon (plural: taxa) should include:
- A {{short description}} indicating its taxon level (alternatively, words such as "group" and "category" are valid for very high taxa), followed by a short indication of what the organisms are in a less academic sense (are they parasites? are they algae? are they amoebae?).
- An {{italic title}} if the page is about a genus or a species.
- An {{automatic taxobox}} containing an image of the organism (or member of the group), its scientific name, its authority with a date, and a map with its geographical range if possible.
- A brief introduction of what the organism is, the more peculiar characteristics of it, its geographical distribution, perhaps when and where it was first found.
If the information amount is large enough, there are several sections that can be made in the page:
- Description or Morphology. What does the organism look like? How does it behave at a microscopic level? Usually this section contains the description given to the organism by the person who first described it, but modern descriptions are welcome.
- Ecology. What is its relationship with the environment? Which ecosystem does it inhabit? What is its geographical distribution? For parasites, this can overlap with a Pathology section.
- Taxonomy or Systematics. When was it discovered and/or described, by whom? How was it classified? How has the classification changed over the years until now? What taxa belong to it?
- Phylogeny. What are the evolutionary relationships between this and other groups?
Name formatting
The taxon's name in taxonomy lists (example: Taxonomy of Protista) should be followed by {{au|«Name of the author», «Year when it was described»}}, so that the authorship is in small letters. The template {{small| }} and the html code <small></small> work the same way. Example: Arcellinida Kent, 1880
If a taxon is monotypic, the page should be titled after the lowest ranking level (example: Uniciliatida). The exception to this are the monotypic genera, for which the title should be the genus, not the species (example: Cryptocalicium).
If a taxon's name is shared between two different monotypic taxa, the priority of genus > species doesn't matter (examples: Lamina (protist) vs Lamina (spider), and Xenus lithophylli vs Xenus (bird)).
If the taxon has synonyms, they can be added between brackets or parentheses next to the taxon's accepted name (example: Plasmodiophore#Systematics).
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest, if you would like to join the project.
- ☽ Snoteleks ☾ Biology student, cladogram creator, phylogeny enthusiast, defender of protists! 16:40, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
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Articles
New articles
Please feel free to list your new protist-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please).
- Mantamonas plastica
- Mantamonas sphyraenae
- Mantamonas vickermani
- Mantamonas
- Syssomonas
- Imasa
- Mayorella marianaensis
- Tunicaraptor
- Stygiellidae
- Cafileria
- Sainouroidea
- Vampyrellida
- Malawimonad
- Gefionella
- Podomonas
- Orcadia (protist)
- Anania (foraminifera)
- Erugomicula
- Saccharomycomorpha
- Proleptomonas
- Aurigamonas
- Olisthodiscus
- Pansomonad
- Viridiraptor
- Orciraptor
- Viridiraptoridae
- Pediglissa
- Euglyphia (protist)
- Glissomonadida
- Minimassisteria
- Massisteria marina
- Massisteriidae
- Leucodictyida
- Mesofila
- Cryptofilida
- Nanofila
- Tetrahelia
- Provora
- Legendrea
- Porosia
- Alabasta
- Planocarina
- Nebela
- Pseudocucurbitella
- Synura
- Gyrista
- Astracantha heteracantha
- Ventrifilosa
- Sarcomonadea
- Paracercomonadidae
- Tetramyxa parasitica
- Tetramyxa
- Miracula
- Phagomyxid
Assessment and statistics
To add an article to the project, put {{WP Protista}} on the talk page.
Important references
Every Wikipedia article must have proper sources. Some important scientific papers for protists are the following:
- Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes
- Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla (Cavalier-Smith, 2017)
- The year 2010 classification of the agglutinated foraminifera
- Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes
- A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms (Ruggiero et al., 2015)
- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- An Updated Classification of Brown Algae
- Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria
Useful websites include:
Related projects
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life.
- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Protista
- WikiProject Microbiology – focused on bacteria and viruses, also helps cover microscopic eukaryotes.
- WikiProject Algae – focused exclusively on photosynthetic bacteria and protists.
- WikiProject Palaeontology – focused on fossils, helps cover extinct protists.
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
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