What is Alveolate?
{{Taxobox | name = Alveolata | fossil_range = [[Ediacaran]] {{ndash}} [[Recent epoch|Recent]] | image = Ceratium furca.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Ceratium furca]]'' | domain = [[Eukarya]] | regnum = [[Chromalveolata]] | superphylum = '''Alveolata''' | subdivision_ranks = Phyla | subdivision = [[Ciliophora]]<br> [[Apicomplexa]]<br> [[Dinoflagellate|Dinoflagellata]]<br> [[Chromerida]]}} The '''Alveolata''' is a grouping of [[protist]]s. One view is that it is a super[[phylum]] with at least four phyla. == Phyla == {{wikispecies|Alveolata}} {{commonscat|Alveolata}} * [[Ciliate]]s, very common [[protozoa]], with many short [[cilia]] arranged in rows * [[Chromerida]] – a marine phylum of [[photosynthetic]] protozoa * [[Apicomplexa]], [[parasitic]] protozoa that lack locomotive structures except in [[gamete]]s * [[Dinoflagellate]], mostly [[Marine biology|marine]] [[flagellate]]s, many of which have [[chloroplast]]s {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Alveolata| ]]