what are members of the kingdom protista called
Kingdom Protista. All single celled organisms are placed under the Kingdom Protista. The term Protista was first used by Ernst Haeckel in the year 1886. This kingdom forms a link between other kingdoms of plants, animals and fungi.Protists represent an important step in early evolution. The first protists evolved probably 1.7 billion years ago.eneral characteristics of Kingdom Protista are as follows: 1  They are simple eukaryotic organisms. 2  Most of the organisms are unicellular, some are colonial and some are multicellular like algae. 3  Most of the protists live in water, some in moist soil or even the body of human and plants.