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 parallela, Helicosphaera perchnielseniae, Helicosphaera reticulata, Helicosphaera rhomba, Helicosphaera sellii, Helicosphaera seminulum, Helicosphaera stalis, Helicosphaera walbersdorfensis, Helicopontosphaera bramlettei, Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera, Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii, Helicopontosphaera hyalina, Helicopontosphaera granulata, Helicopontosphaera minima, Helicopontosphaera dinesenii, Helicopontosphaera heezenii
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Helicosphaera truncata in the database
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