User:Snoteleks

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Biologist from Madrid, Spain; currently in Canada working on my PhD on protists. Seeking to expand the public availability of scientific knowledge. Founder of WikiProject Protista (volunteers welcome!). My main interests revolve around the evolution and biodiversity of protists and other organisms.

What I do here

Projects

• Larger-scope articles on protistology
  • Publishing Glossary of protistology
  • Publishing Draft:Protist systematics
  • Improving Protistology
• Updating Protist classification
  • Renaming to List of protist genera
• Improving articles on essential concepts
  • Protist
  • Algae
• Improving articles on the deep evolution of eukaryotes
  • Diaphoretickes
  • Podiata
• Improving main protist phyla/phylum-level groups
  • Ochrophyte
  • Chlorophyta
  • Nucleariid
  • ...

Articles created/improved

Protist-related essentials

• Protist
• Glossary of protistology
• Protist classification

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Protist groups (above genus)

• Aphagea
• Anisonemia
• Apusomonad
• Barthelonid
• Bigyra
• Centrohelid
• Ceratiomyxales
• Cercozoa
• Chlorophyta
• Chloropicaceae
• Chrompodellid
• Corycidia
• Cryptodifflugiidae
• Cryptofilida
• Cutosea
• Developea
• Dictyochales
• Dictyotales
• Eogyrea
• Endohelea
• Euglenophyceae
• Euglyphia (protist)
• Eumycetozoa
• Eutreptiaceae
• Evosea
• Glissomonadida
• Granofilosea
• Gyrista
• Heliomonadida
• Helkesida
• Hyalospheniidae
• Katablepharid
• Malawimonad
• Marimonadida
• Massisteriidae
• Nucleariid
• Leucodictyida
• Natomonadida
• Ochromonadales
• Ochrophyte
• Opalinata
• Opalomonadea
• Opalozoa
• Pansomonad
• Paracercomonadidae
• Parviluciferaceae
• Pediglissa
• Pedinellales
• Peranemid
• Perkinsea
• Phaeodarea
• Phagomyxid
• Pirsoniales
• Plasmodiophore
• Provora
• Raphidophyte
• Raphopoda
• Sainouridae
• Sarcomonadea
• Spirocuta
• Stygiellidae
• Raphidophyte
• Telonemia
• Thecamonadinae
• Thecofilosea
• Uniciliatida
• Vampyrellida
• Ventrata
• Viridiraptoridae
• Wobblata

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Protist genera or species

• Abathomphalus
• Abeoforma
• Actinophrys
• Actinosphaerium
• Alabasta
• Amastigomonas
• Anania (foraminifera)
• Astracantha (protist)
• Aurigamonas
• Barthelona
• Cafileria
• Certesella
• Chelandium
• Chelonemonas
• Chloroparvula
• Chloropicon
• Commation
  • Commation cryoporinum
  • Commation eposianum
• Cryptaulaxella
• Cryptodifflugia
  • Cryptodifflugia leachi
• Develorapax
• Dictyocha
• Divimonas
• Dracoamoeba
• Endosphaera
• Entosiphon
• Erugomicula
• Flamella
• Gefionella
• Hedriocystis pellucida
• Heliorapha
• Imasa
• Iridia
• Jarrellia
• Kaonashia
• Katabia
• Lamina irreperta
• Lana (genus)
• Leptomyxa
• Linea
• Luapeleamoeba
  • Luapeleamoeba hula
• Limnofila
• Mantamonas
  • Mantamonas sphyraenae
  • Mantamonas plastica
  • Mantamonas vickermani
• Massisteria
  • Massisteria marina
• Mayorella
  • Mayorella marianaensis
• Meisterfeldia
• Mesofila
• Meteora sporadica
• Microheliella
• Minimassisteria
• Miracula
• Moyeria
• Naegleria lustrarea
• Nanofila
• Nebela
• Neometanema
• Nothia (foraminifera)
• Olisthodiscus
• Orcadia riedeli
• Orciraptor
• Padaungiella
• Parvilucifera
• Phycophthorum
• Picophagus
• Pinjata
• Pirsonia
• Ploeotia
• Planocarina
• Platysulcus
• Pleurosigma
  • Pleurosigma pacificum
• Podomonas
• Porosia
• Prantlitina
• Proleptomonas
• Protacanthamoeba
• Protosporangium
• Pseudocucurbitella
• Pseudophyllomitus
• Pseudopirsonia
• Pteridomonas
• Rapaza
• Saccarena
• Saccharomycomorpha
• Saccorhiza (foraminifera)
• Sappinia dangeardi
• Skoliomonas
• Synchroma
• Synura
• Syssomonas
• Tetrahelia
• Tetramyxa
  • Tetramyxa parasitica
• Thecamoeba homeri
• Tunicaraptor
• Triangulopteris
• Trichosphaerium
• Urospora (alveolate)
• Urceolus
  • Urceolus alenizini
  • Urceolus cornutus
  • Urceolus cyclostomus
• Vacuolamoeba
• Viridiraptor

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Deep eukaryotic evolution

• Diaphoretickes
• Holozoa
• Mesokaryote
• Podiata
• Supergroup (biology)

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Cell biology

• Chromosome scaffold
• Cortical alveolum
• Rhizoplast

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People

• Heinrichs Skuja

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Fungi (incl. "lower fungi")

• Ameson
• Arachnomyces
  • Arachnomyces bostrychodes
  • Arachnomyces flavidulus
• Calcarisporiellales
• Cladochytriales
• Cryptocalicium
• Eurotiomycetes
• Hazardia (microsporidian)
• Orcadia (fungus)
• Rhopalophora clavispora
• Xenodevriesia
• Xenus lithophylli

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Animals

• Deuteropoda
• Errantia
• Gastropod classification
• Lumbriclymeninae
• Maldanidae
• Maldanomorpha
• Notoproctus
• Orbiniida
• Pleistoannelida
• Protodriliformia
• Rhodine
• Rhodininae
• Sedentaria
• Terebelliformia

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Plants

• Hiya (plant)

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Templates

• Template:Discoba
• Template:Eukaryota
• Template:Metamonada
• Template:Protist fossil record

Potential articles to create/improve

• Algae
  • Green algae
  • Euglenophyceae
• Basic concepts
  • Protozoa
  • Amoeba
• Basal clades
  • Amorphea
  • Opisthokont
  • Bikont (Diphoda?)
  • Scotokaryotes (Opimoda?)
  • Neokaryotes
• Ochrophyte classes
  • Synchromophyceae
  • Picophagus
  • Aurearenophyceae
  • Golden algae
  • Phaeosacciophyceae
• Protistologists
  • David J. Patterson
  • John O. Corliss

Userboxes

This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 2 months and 26 days.	This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.	This user is a WikiDragon: making massive, bold edits everywhere.	Babel user information es-N Esta persona tiene una comprensión nativa del español. en-5 This user has professional knowledge of English. gl-1 Este usuario ten un coñecemento básico de galego. Users by language
This user participates in WikiProject Protista.	This user participates in WikiProject Fungi.	This user is a member of the taxobox task force
This user uses Biodiversity Heritage Library to do research for Wikipedia.	This user is an advocate of open research and open access.	This user is against art generated by artifical intelligence and believes it harms human artists.
This user is Spanish.	This user rides the Line 3 on the Madrid Subway.	0.0022% This user has created 158 of the 7,254,192 articles on the English language Wikipedia.
This user is a biologist.	This user is interested in invertebrates of all kinds.	This user is interested in Phylogeny.

Recognition

Microbiology barnstar – For your absolutely amazing work at WikiProject Protista. I'm normally hanging around WikiProject Insects and WP:GA, and came across your work browsing the backlong. For an editor who's only been around for two years or so, you're work is amazing quality. Keep it up!!! —🏵️Etrius (Us) 03:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

The Tree of Life Barnstar – For your first GA review, and another successful promotion with Parvilucifera, congratulations! Thank you for your continued hard work in improving the quality of diverse organisms on Wikipedia. —Fritzmann (message me) 19:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

The Bio-star – I would like to present this award for your extensive editing of protistology articles, including the recently created Glossary of protistology. Many thanks. I wish you much enthusiasm for further editing. —Petr Karel (talk) 09:09, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Gallery

Sometimes I draw images for Wikipedia, such as the following:

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  Ochrophyte cell
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  Chlorophyte cell
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  Protists in the soil food web
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  Map of the WP:TOL projects
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  Infographic on the occurrence of unicellularity and multicellularity across life
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  Occurrence of plastid endosymbiosis across eukaryotes. Pictures are free images by Keeling & Eglit (2023)

Useful resources

• Tool that gives automatic citation templates just with the DOI or URL (shoutout to @Plantdrew, I discovered this in their profile)
• Synonyms of the most frequent concepts used in taxonomic articles, to avoid repetition when writing:
  • group (noun, as in group of taxa): collection, assemblage, category, assortment...
  • has (verb, as in has cellular structures): contains, exhibits, presents, displays, possesses, carries...
  • is composed of (verb, for clade composition): comprises, includes, groups, contains, encompasses...
  • evolved (verb, to mention adaptations and synapomorphies): obtained, gained, acquired, inherited (HGT), achieved...
  • considered (verb, to reflect scientific consensus): regarded as, known to be, treated as...

Favourite images

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  Vaprio d'Adda, Bernardo Bellotto 1744
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  Mean monthly precipitation worldwide, PZMaps and Aiyizo, 2010

Rabbit holes

This is a collection of curious Wikipedia rabbit holes I've found myself reading through.

• User:JzG/charlatans → Wikipedia:Lunatic charlatans → Wikipedia:Complete bollocks → User:Geogre — A user that stopped editing ages ago, before I was old enough to be self-aware. They have since allowed their userpage to be a gallery of poems by people who either appreciate or criticize them. Even disregarding those, it's simply an interesting reading experience into a world before the Wikipedia that I know and love today, full of early internet philosophy and English eccentricity. This person was referenced by others in essays and was clearly somewhat of a niche wiki-celebrity. (August 2025)
• Wikipedia:Userboxes/Science → User:UBX/TimeInUniverse → User:Drbogdan — A now blocked user whose behavior is so strange it ends up being fascinating. Among other things which got him blocked by the community, he kept promoting his own social media and blog, which is in itself an insane find, both for the content and for its aesthetics. (September 2026)