David J. Patterson
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David Joseph Patterson is a Northern Irish taxonomist specializing in protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics.
David J. Patterson, island of Sylt, 1992
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Protozoa are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris. Historically, protozoans wer
David J. Patterson
…David Joseph Patterson (born 19 April 1950) is a Northern Irish taxonomist specializing in protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics. David Joseph Patterson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 19 April 1950 to Doris Mary (née…
Clockwise from top left: Blepharisma japonicum, a ciliate; Giardia muris, a parasitic flagellate; Centropyxis aculeata, a testate (shelled) amoeba; Peridinium willei, a dinoflagellate; Chaos carolinense, a naked amoebozoan; Desmarella moniliformis, a choanoflagellate
Class Protozoa, order Infusoria, family Monades by Georg August Goldfuss, c. 1844
John Hogg's illustration of the Four Kingdoms of Nature, showing "Primigenal" as a greenish haze at the base of the Animals and Plants, 1860
Frederick Chapman's The foraminifera: an introduction to the study of the protozoa (1902)