Imbricatea is a class of
Rhizaria
The Rhizaria are an ill-defined but species-rich supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes. Except for the Chlorarachniophytes and three species in the genus Paulinella in the phylum Cercozoa, they are all non-photosynthethic, but many foramini ...
characterised by
silica
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scales. It is sometimes described as "Imbricatea/Silicofilosea", due to the similarity of those two groupings.
Imbricatea is divided into the
orders
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* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
Euglyphida
The euglyphids are a prominent group of filose amoebae that produce shells or tests from siliceous scales, plates, and sometimes spines. These elements are created within the cell and then assembled on its surface in a more or less regular arran ...
and
Thaumatomonadida
Thaumatomonadida is an order of flagellates.
Taxonomy
Order Thaumatomonadida Shirkina 1987
* Genus '' Cowlomonas'' Scoble & Cavalier-Smith 2014
* Genus '' Heterochromonas'' Lee & Patterson 2000
* Family Esquamulidae Shiratori, Yabuki & Ishida 2 ...
.
Phylogeny
Phylogeny based on Cavalier-Smith & Chao 2012
References
Cercozoa classes
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