Imbricatea

Imbricatea is a class of Rhizaria characterised by silica scales. It is sometimes described as "Imbricatea/Silicofilosea", due to the similarity of those two groupings.^[1] Imbricatea is divided into the orders Euglyphida and Thaumatomonadida.^[2][3]

Imbricatea
Euglypha sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Rhizaria
Phylum:	Cercozoa
Superclass:	Ventrifilosa
Class:	Imbricatea Cavalier-Smith, 2003
Orders
Perlofilida Spongomonadida Rotosphaerida Thaumatomonadida Discocelida Discomonadida Zoelucasida Variglissida Marimonadida Euglyphida
Synonyms
Silicofilosea Adl et al. 2005 emend. Adl et al. 2012

Phylogeny

Phylogeny based on Cavalier-Smith & Chao 2012^[4]

Silicofilosea	Placoperla Perlatia Perlofilida Cavalier-Smith 2012 Spongomonadida Hibberd 1983 emend. Karpov 1990 Placofila Rotosphaerida Rainer 1968 Thaumatomonadida Shirkina 1987 Placonuda Discocelida Cavalier-Smith 1997 Discomonadida Cavalier-Smith 2014 Euglyphia Euglyphida Copeland 1956 emend. Cavalier-Smith 1997 Nudisarca Variglissida Cavalier-Smith 2014 Marimonadida Cavalier-Smith & Bass 2011