Euglyphia is a group of imbricate protists in the phylum Cercozoa. They are unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a cell body covered in large imbricate scales, and an apical aperture through which they extend either filose pseudopodia or two cilia of different sizes that are not used for gliding.[1]
| Euglyphia | |
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| Euglypha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Cercozoa |
| Class: | Imbricatea |
| Subclass: | Placonuda |
| Superorder: | Euglyphia Cavalier-Smith, 2018[1] |
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Classification
editEuglyphia is composed of 2 orders and 7 families, with a total of 14 different genera.[1]
- Order Euglyphida Copeland, 1956 emend. Cavalier-Smith, 1987
- Family Euglyphidae Wallich, 1864 – Euglypha
- Family Trinematidae Hoogenraad & De Groot, 1940 – Corythion, Trinema
- Family Sphenoderiidae Chatelain et al., 2013 – Sphenoderia, Trachelocorythion
- Family Assulinidae Lara et al., 2006 – Assulina, Placocista
- Family Cyphoderiidae De Saedeleer, 1934 – Cyphoderia, Corothionella, Pseudocorythion
- Family Paulinellidae De Saedeleer, 1934 – Paulinella, Ovulinata, Micropyxidiella
- Order Zoelucasida Cavalier-Smith, 2014[2]
- Family Zoelucasidae Cavalier-Smith, 2014 – Zoelucasa
References
edit- ^ a b c Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Chao, Ema E.; Lewis, Rhodri (April 2018). "Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria". Protoplasma. 255 (5): 1517–1574. doi:10.1007/s00709-018-1241-1. PMC 6133090. PMID 29666938.
- ^ Scoble JM, Cavalier-Smith T (2014). "Scale evolution, sequence phylogeny, and taxonomy of thaumatomonad Cercozoa: 11 new species and new genera Scutellomonas, Cowlomonas, Thaumatospina and Ovaloplaca". Eur J Protistol. 50 (3): 270–313. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2013.12.005. PMID 24667165.