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Litheliidae

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Litheliidae

Taxonomy
Litheliidae was named by Haeckel (1862). It is extant.

It was assigned to Sponguracea by De Wever et al. (2001); and to Spumellaria by Sharma and Takahashi (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Litheliidae Haeckel
2001Litheliidae De Wever et al. p. 164
2007Litheliidae Sharma and Takahashi p. 822

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RankNameAuthor
Life
Eukaryota()
classProtozoaGoldfuss 1820
subphylumSarcodinaSchmarda 1871
classReticulareaLankester 1885
RankNameAuthor
subclassRadiolaria(Müller 1858)
orderSpumellariaEhrenberg 1875
superfamilySponguraceaHaeckel 1862
familyLitheliidaeHaeckel 1862
familyLitheliidaeHaeckel 1862

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Litheliidae Haeckel 1862
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G. Cromyodruppa Haeckel 1887
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Cromyodruppa concentrica Lipman 1952
Invalid names: Cromyodruppa prunulina Rüst 1892 [nomen dubium]
G. Lithelius Haeckel 1860
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Lithelius nautiloides Popofsky 1908
Lithelius sinensis Feng et al. 2006
Invalid names: Lithelius difficilis Rüst 1892 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available