Belongs to Helicosphaera according to Bramlette and Wilcoxon 1967
Sister taxa: Helicosphaera burkei, Helicosphaera carteri, Helicosphaera cateri, Helicosphaera compacta, Helicosphaera ethologa, Helicosphaera euphratis, Helicosphaera intermedia, Helicosphaera lophota, Helicosphaera neolophota, Helicosphaera obliqua, Helicosphaera orientalis, Helicosphaera pacifica, Helicosphaera papillata, Helicosphaera perchnielseniae, Helicosphaera reticulata, Helicosphaera rhomba, Helicosphaera sellii, Helicosphaera seminulum, Helicosphaera stalis, Helicosphaera truncata, Helicosphaera walbersdorfensis, Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii, Helicopontosphaera heezenii, Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera, Helicopontosphaera dinesenii, Helicopontosphaera hyalina, Helicopontosphaera granulata, Helicopontosphaera bramlettei, Helicopontosphaera minima
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Helicosphaera parallela in the database
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