Cutosea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
Clade: | Evosea |
Superclass: | Cutosa Cavalier-Smith, 2016[1] |
Class: | Cutosea Cavalier-Smith, 2016[1] |
Order: | Squamocutida Cavalier-Smith, 2016[1] |
Families[1] | |
Diversity | |
4 species |
Cutosea (from Latin cutis 'skin') is a small group of marine amoeboid protists proposed in 2016. It is a monotypic class of Amoebozoa containing the order Squamocutida (from Latin squama 'scale' and cutis 'skin'). Cutosean organisms are characterized by a cell coat of microscales separated from the cell membrane. Four genera, Armaparvus, Idionectes, Sapocribrum and Squamamoeba, belong to this group, distributed in three families.