Biology:Spumellaria

Short description: Order of single-celled organisms

Spumellaria
Shell of a Hexastylus sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Phylum:	Retaria
Class:	Polycystina
Order:	Spumellaria Ehrenberg, 1875
Families
Actinommidae Haeckel, 1862, emend. Riedel, 1967 Coccodiscidae Haeckel, 1862 Heliodiscidae Litheliidae Haeckel, 1862 Orosphaeridae Haeckel, 1887 Pyloniidae Haeckel, 1881 Spongodiscidae Haeckel, 1862 emend. Riedel, 1967 Tholoniidae Haeckel, 1887

Spumellaria is an order of radiolarians in the class Polycystinea.

Families

• Actinommidae
• Anakrusidae
• Angulobracchiidae
• Archaeospongoprunidae
• Astrosphaeridae
• Bolenidae
• Catenopylidae
• Cavaspongiidae
• Coccodiscidae
• Conocaryommidae
• Dactyliosphaeridae
• Emiluviidae
• Entapiidae
• Ethmosphaeridae
• Gomberellidae
• Hagiastridae
• Heliodiscidae
• Hexaporobrachiidae
• Larnacillidae
• Leugeonidae
• Litheliidae
• Miropylidae
• Myelastridae
• Oertlispongidae
• Orbiculiformidae
• Pantanelliidae
• Parasaturnalidae
• Parvivaccidae
• Patulibracchiidae
• Patruliidae
• Phacodiscidae
• Phaseliformidae
• Praeconocaryommidae
• Pseudoacanthocircidae
• Pseudoaulophacidae
• Pyloniidae
• Pyramispongiidae
• Relindellidae
• Spongodiscidae
• Sponguridae
• Stylosphaeridae
• Thalassicollidae
• Tholoniidae
• Tritrabidae
• Veghicycliidae
• Xiphostylidae

In addition, several taxa in this order are still considered incertae sedis.

Gallery

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  Hexancistra quadricuspis shell (Haeckel)
• 
  Shells of (mostly) Spumellaria (Haeckel)
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  Spumellaria from the Challenger Expedition

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3967296 entry