Filozoa

Filozoans; Temporal range:
	Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Clade:	Obazoa
(unranked):	Opisthokonta
(unranked):	Holozoa
(unranked):	Filozoa; Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008
Subgroups
	Filasterea; Choanozoa Choanoflagellatea; Animalia; ;

The Filozoa are a monophyletic grouping within the Opisthokonta. They include animals and their nearest unicellular relatives (those organisms which are more closely related to animals than to fungi or Mesomycetozoa).^[1]

Three groups are currently assigned to the clade Filozoa:

Group Filasterea - recently erected to house the genera Ministeria and Capsaspora
Group Choanoflagellatea - collared flagellates
Kingdom Animalia - the animals proper

Filozoans Temporal range:

Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Clade:	Obazoa
(unranked):	Opisthokonta
(unranked):	Holozoa
(unranked):	Filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008
Subgroups
Filasterea Choanozoa Choanoflagellatea Animalia