Australian Biological Resources Study
A.D.Chapman
Australian Biodiversity Information Services, Toowoomba, Australia
A Report for the Department of the Environment and Heritage, September 2005
ISBN (printed) 978 0 642 56849 6
ISBN (online) 978 0 642 56850 2
| Other names and inclusions | World Described minimum | World Described maximum | World Accepted | World Estimate | Australia Described | Australia Described % of World Described | Australia Estimate | Australia Endemic | |
| Diplomonadida | Archaeprotista, Archamoebe, Karyoblastea, Amitochondriates, Discomitochondria, Neomonada | 40 | 100 | 100 | |||||
| Rhizopoda | Amoebas, Amaeobozoa (uncertain taxonomic boundaries (Corliss 2000)) | 200 | 5 000 | 200 | |||||
| Mycetozoa | Myxomycota (Plasmodial slime moulds) | ~500 | 900 | 900 | |||||
| Granuloreticulosa | Foraminifera 45 000 species, c. 89% are fossils, so about 5 000 extant species) | 4 000 | 5 000 | 4 000 | |||||
| Actinopoda | Radiozoa, Radiolaria, Polycistina, Phaedoaria, Heliozoa, Acantharia | ~4 000 | 8 000 | 4 240 | |||||
| Euglenida | Euglenozoa, Kinetoplastida | 1 000 | 1 600 | 1 600 | |||||
| Dinoflagellata | Dinozoa, Dinomastigota | ~2 000 | 4 000 | 4 000 | |||||
| Parabasilida | Parabasala, Trichomonads, Hypermastigates | 300 | 400 | 300 | |||||
| Apicomplexa | Sporozoa, Haplospora, Plasmodiophora, Paramyxa | 5 000 | 5 000 | 5 000 | |||||
| Ciliophora | Ciliates | 7 800 | 12 000 | 10 000 | |||||
| Opalinida | Opalinata, Protociliata, Paraflagellata | 150 | 200 | 200 | |||||
| Myxozoa | Myxospora, Myxosporidia, Microspora | 800 | >1 200 | 12 000 | |||||
| TOTAL | ~25 790 | ~43 000 | 42 540 | <600 000 | unknown | 65 000 | unknown |