A search that checks against common names and lexical variants.
Example: A search for "Pomatomus saltator" will check presence in the tree of "Pomatomus sallatrix", "Pomatomus saltator", or "Pomatomus saltatrix".
A search that checks against common names and lexical variants and homotypic variants.
Example: A search for "Pomatomus saltator" will check presence in the tree of "Cheilodipterus saltatrix", "Gasterosteus saltatrix", "Pomatomix saltatrix", "Pomatomus sallatrix", "Pomatomus saltator", "Pomatomus saltatrix", or "Temnodon saltator".
Description of Desmothoracids: Circumscription: One subset of the group previously referred to as heliozoa. Amoeboid body giving rise to stiff pseudopodia (the heliozoan stage) located in an organic lorica, often stalked. Heliozoan stage produces biflagellated motile stage, which can then give rise to an amoeboid form with stiff but motile pseudopodia. Heterotrophic. Ultrastructural identity: Mitochondria with tubular cristae, microtubules in support of pseudopodia not in organized geometric arrays or in open hexagons, and no microtubule organizing centre is known. Many dictyosomes. Extrusomes concentric core and girdle (kinctocyst). Flagellated stage not studied in any detail. Synapomorphy: Tubulocristate protists with a heliozoan stage located in a fenestrated organic lorica.
