| Platysulcus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Class: | Platysulcea Cavalier-Smith, 2017 |
| Order: | Platysulcida Cavalier-Smith, 2017 |
| Family: | Platysulcidae Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida, 2015 |
| Genus: | Platysulcus Shiratori, Nakayama & Ishida, 2015 |
| Species: | P. tardus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platysulcus tardus Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida, 2015
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Platysulcus tardus (from Latin platy 'wide' and sulcus 'furrow') is an eukaryotic microorganism that was recently discovered to be the earliest diverging lineage of the Heterokont phylogenetic tree.[1][2] It is the only member of the family Platysulcidae, order Platysulcida and class Platysulcea.
- ^ Shiratori, Takashi; Nakayama, Takeshi; Ishida, Ken-ichiro (2015). "A New Deep-branching Stramenopile, Platysulcus tardus gen. nov., sp. nov". Protist. 166 (3): 337–348. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2015.05.001. hdl:2241/00148461. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 26070192.
- ^ Shiratori, Takashi; Thakur, Rabindra; Ishida, Ken-ichiro (2017). "Pseudophyllomitus vesiculosus (Larsen and Patterson 1990) Lee, 2002, a Poorly Studied Phagotrophic Biflagellate is the First Characterized Member of Stramenopile Environmental Clade MAST-6". Protist. 168 (4): 439–451. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2017.06.004. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 28822908.