Gdiales
Note: Gdiales is a fictional taxon created for illustrative purposes in discussions of systematics and education. It is not a real group and is used here to demonstrate how taxonomic concepts can be organized and debated.
Gdiales is described in some speculative works as an order within a hypothetical phylum called Gdionta. In
In the fictional scheme, members of Gdiales are small, unicellular eukaryotes ranging roughly from 5 to 20
Ecologically, Gdiales creatures are imagined as planktonic organisms inhabiting coastal and open-water environments in a fictional
Taxonomy of Gdiales is intentionally unsettled in many educational texts. Different authors place the group within
Etymology in fictional usage notes that the name Gdiales echoes the common -ales suffix used for taxonomic