Raphidiophryidae is a family of mostly freshwater centrohelids. It is the sister family of Acanthocystidae, sharing the trait of presenting silica scales and comprising the clade
Chalarothoracina.
Two genera, ''
Raphidiophrys
Raphidiophrys is a genus of centrohelid with radiating axopodia.Zlatogursky, V. V. (2012). ''Raphidiophrys heterophryoidea'' sp. nov. (Centrohelida: Raphidiophryidae), the first heliozoan species with a combination of siliceous and organic skelet ...
'' and ''
Polyplacocystis'', have been discovered so far.
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Haptista
Eukaryote families