Haptista is a group of made up of and . Phylogenomic studies indicate that Haptista, together with Ancoracysta twista, forms a sister clade to the TSAR supergroup, but it may also be sister to the Cryptista (+Archaeplastida). It is thus one of the earliest diverging Diaphoretickes.
Taxonomy
Based on studies done by Cavalier-Smith, Chao & Lewis 2015
and Ruggiero et al. 2015.
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Subphylum Centroheliozoa Cushman & Jarvis 1929 sensu Durrschmidt & Patterson 1987 Heliozoa
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Class Centrohelea Kuhn 1926 stat. n. Cavalier-Smith 1993 Centroplastiales;
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Subphylum Haptophyte Cavalier-Smith 2015 (Haptophyta Hibberd 1976 sensu Ruggerio et al. 2015)
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