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Imbricatea  Cavalier-Smith 2011

Test with secreted surface silica scales; tubular mitochondrial cristae; pseudopodia conical, pointed, clearly ectoplasmatic, sometimes branched and may anastomose.

Euglyphida

Assulinidae
Euglyphidae
Sphenoderiidae
Trinematidae
Cyphoderiidae
Paulinellidae
Trivalvulariidae

Testate amoebae with an organic test that is smooth or embedded with xenosomes; pseudopodia branching and anastomosing with rapid two-way-streaming of small granules; pseudostome can be closed by three membranous valves.

Incertae sedis
Ferry Siemensma, created March 3, 2019; last modified September 15, 2023
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