Gymnosphaerid

Gymnosphaerids
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: Sar
Clade: Rhizaria
Phylum: incertae sedis
Order: Gymnosphaerida
Family: Gymnosphaerida
(Poche, 1913)
Species
  • Actinolophus?
  • Wagnerella?
  • Actinocoryne
  • Gymnosphaera
  • Hedraiophrys
Synonyms
  • Axoplasthelida Febvre-Chevalier, 1984
  • Axoplastheliales
  • Gymnidae
  • Hedraiophryidae
  • Wagnerellidae Poche 1913

The gymnosphaerids (or Gymnosphaerida) are a small group of heliozoan protists found in marine environments. They tend to be roughly spherical with radially directed axopods, supported by microtubules in a triangular-hexagonal array arising from an amorphous central granule.

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