Editing Entamoeba (section)

==Classification==
''Entamoeba'' belongs to the [[Archamoebae]], which like many other anaerobic eukaryotes have reduced [[mitochondrion|mitochondria]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Tovar J, Fischer A, Clark CG | title = The mitosome, a novel organelle related to mitochondria in the amitochondrial parasite Entamoeba histolytica | year = 1999| journal = Molecular Biology | volume = 32 | issue = 5 | pages = 1013–1021 | doi =10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01414.x | pmid = 10361303 |doi-access=free}}</ref> This group also includes ''[[Endolimax]]'' and ''[[Iodamoeba]]'', which also live in animal intestines and are similar in appearance to ''Entamoeba'', although this may partly be due to convergence.  Also in this group are the free-living amoebo-flagellates of the genus ''Mastigamoeba'' and related genera.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Stensvold CR, Lebbad M, Clark CG |title=Last of the human protists: the phylogeny and genetic diversity of Iodamoeba. |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=  29|pmid= 21940643 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msr238 |issue=1 |date=January 2012 |pages=39–42|url=http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/28327/1/28327.pdf |doi-access=free }}</ref> Certain other genera of symbiotic amoebae, such as ''Endamoeba'', might prove to be synonyms of ''Entamoeba'' but this is still unclear.