were originally described and proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 2002.

The International Society of Protistologists, the recognised body for taxonomy of protozoa, recommended in 2012 that the term Unikont be changed to Amorphea because the name "Unikont" is based on a hypothesized synapomorphy that the ISOP authors and other scientists later rejected.

It includes amoebozoa, opisthokonts,

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