Lituolida
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The Lituolida are an order of shell -bearing, sea-dwelling protists from the group of foraminifera .
features
All kinds of order form agglutinated housings, i.e. housings made of collected particles that are either anchored in a protein or mineral-based matrix. The housings are multi-chambered, usually plane- spiral , rarely trochospiral or streptospiral, almost always spiral (only rarely in old age) and consistently built in series.
Systematics
The order currently includes ten superfamilies:
- Superfamily Ammodiscacea
- Ammodiscidae family
- Superfamily Rzehakinacea
- Family Rzehakinidae
- Superfamily Hormosinacea
- Reophacidae family
- Family Hormosinidae
- Superfamily Lituolacea
- Family Haplophragmoididae
- Family Lituotubidae
- Family Lituolidae
- Family Placopsilinidae
- Superfamily Haplophragmiacea
- Family Ammosphaeroidinidae
- Superfamily Coscinophragmatacea
- Family Coscinophragmatidae
- Superfamily Loftusiacea
- Family Cyclamminidae
- Superfamily Spiroplectamminacea
- Family Nouriidae
- Family Spiroplectamminidae
- Superfamily Verneuilinacea
- Verneuilinidae family
- Superfamily Ataxophragmiacea
- Family Globotextulariidae
- Family Textulariellidae
proof
- Barun K. Sen Gupta: Systematics of modern Foraminifera , In: Barun K. Sen Gupta (Ed.): Modern Foraminifera . Springer Netherlands (Kluwer Academic), 2002, ISBN 978-1-4020-0598-5 , pp. 23 .
Web links
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