#chromista

[battle-of-the-taxons]

KINGDOMS: ROUND ONE

CHROMISTA VS ANIMALIA

Chromista

Animalia

Voting ended onDec 26, 2023

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CHROMISTA

Chromista are a group of single celled Eukaryotes who all have plastids containing one type of chlorophyll. It is likely that they acquired their photosynthetic plastids were from "eating" red algae!

ANIMALIA

Does this group even need an introduction? This famous famous group contains multicellular eukaryotes, an extremely diverse group of life forms for any niche imaginable. The majority of this group is insects, followed by molluscs then vertebrates.

We expect this to be a tough fight! remember fans, play nice!

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93054860]

Diatom || Coscinodiscus bouvet

Observed in Antarctica

No Conservation Status

[rattyexplores]

Photos 1-4 - Sargassaceae sp.

Photos 5-8 - Turbinaria sp.

Photos 9-10 - unknown, possibly Chromista

Washed up brown algae (seaweed).

06/11/23 - Chromista spp. (iNaturalist uses this proposed grouping)

QLD:WET - Etty Bay

[featherwurm]

The Other Card

The other card represents freedom. Representing the other major phyla separate from those most known and visible life forms, this card is almost a 'joker' of sorts. Freedom from the limitations of ones own place in life, one should look to escape that which they both love and fear. To move beyond constrains of worldly concern into the boundless unknown. Archea, Chromista, Protista, and Bacteria all form their own impressive kingdoms full of a variety of important creatures that determine the viability of life on our planet, and yet they do so in novel, incredible ways that science has only yet begun to better understand. While some of their forms are familiar and some have had many centuries of study, these kingdoms still struggle to be defined in meaningful ways among their fellow organisms.

[todropscience]

This is a freshwater amazon rotifer (Lecane sp) parasitized by Myzocytiopsis zoophthora, a species of zoosporic fungal organism, whose flagellated spores are similar to animals in the way they move using its flagellum. The circles in the degenerate body of the rotifers are oospores, is a thick-walled sexual spore that develops in the microscopic fungi. The parasitic influence of Myzocytiopsis zoophthora affects the dynamics of rotifers population, since rotifers are the food of many aquatic invertebrates.

Photograph by Ribamar Rocha/ Centro de Ciências da Natureza da Universidade Federal do Piauí 

via PESQUISA FAPESP

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54048341] Sea Sparkle || Noctiluca scintillans Observed in United States (WA) No Conservation Status

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69989890] Ciliate || Genus Askenasia Observed in United States (CA)

[rattyexplores]

Peacock's tail brown algae. Another common sight in tidepools.

06/11/23 - Phaeophyceae: Padina pavonica

QLD:WET - tidepools