Editing Alveolate (section)

{{Short description|Clade of protists}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
 | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Ediacaran|present|[[Ediacaran]]–[[Holocene|Recent]]|refs=<ref>
{{cite journal
 | first = C.-W.
 | last = Li
 | title = Ciliated protozoans from the Precambrian Doushantuo Formation, Wengan, South China
 | journal = Geological Society, London, Special Publications
 | year=2007 | volume=286 | issue = 1
 | pages=151–6
 | doi = 10.1144/SP286.11
 | bibcode = 2007GSLSP.286..151L
 | s2cid = 129584945
 |display-authors=etal}}
</ref>}}
| image = Ceratium furca.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Ceratium furca]]''
| display_parents = 5
| taxon = Alveolata
| authority = [[Thomas Cavalier-Smith|Cavalier-Smith]], 1991
| subdivision_ranks = Phyla
| subdivision = 
* [[Ciliophora]]
* [[Myzozoa]]
| synonyms =
* Alveolatobiontes
}}

The '''alveolates''' (meaning "pitted like a honeycomb")<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.memidex.com/alveolate |title=alveolate |work=Memidex (WordNet) Dictionary/Thesaurus |access-date=2011-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411233722/http://www.memidex.com/alveolate |archive-date=2016-04-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> are a group of [[protist]]s, considered a major unranked [[clade]]<ref name="Adl2012">{{cite journal | last1 = Adl | first1 = S.M. | display-authors = etal   | year = 2012 | title = The revised classification of eukaryotes | journal = Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | volume = 59 | issue = 5| pages = 429–514 | doi=10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x | pmid=23020233 | pmc=3483872}}</ref> or [[Phylum|superphylum]]<ref name="Ruggiero15">{{cite journal |vauthors=Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, Cavalier-Smith T, Guiry MD, Kirk PM |title=A higher level classification of all living organisms |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=e0119248 |year=2015 |pmid=25923521 |pmc=4418965 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 |bibcode=2015PLoSO..1019248R |doi-access=free }}</ref> within [[Eukaryote|Eukaryota]]. They are currently grouped with the [[stramenopile]]s and [[Rhizaria]] among the protists with tubulocristate mitochondria into the [[SAR supergroup|SAR]] [[Supergroup (biology)|supergroup]].