| Imbricatea | |
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| Euglypha sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Cercozoa |
| Superclass: | Ventrifilosa |
| Class: | Imbricatea Cavalier-Smith, 2003 |
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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]
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- ^ Thomas Cavalier-Smith & Ema E.-Y. Chao (October 2003). "Phylogeny and classification of phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa)" (PDF). Protist. 154 (3–4): 341–358. doi:10.1078/143446103322454112. PMID 14658494. S2CID 26079642. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-27.
- ^ "Cercozoa". Retrieved May 21, 2009.