title: Euglyphia (protist)
text: # Euglyphia (protist)
  
  Euglyphia is a group of imbricate protists in the phylum Cercozoa. They are unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a cell body covered in large imbricate scales, and an apical aperture through which they extend either filose pseudopodia or two cilia of different sizes that are not used for gliding.
  
  ## Classification
  
  Euglyphia is composed of 2 orders and 7 families, with a total of 14 different genera.
  
  * Order Euglyphida Copeland, 1956 emend. Cavalier-Smith, 1987
     * Family Euglyphidae Wallich, 1864 – Euglypha
     * Family Trinematidae Hoogenraad & De Groot, 1940 – Corythion, Trinema
     * Family Sphenoderiidae Chatelain et al., 2013 – Sphenoderia, Trachelocorythion
     * Family Assulinidae Lara et al., 2006 – Assulina, Placocista
     * Family Cyphoderiidae De Saedeleer, 1934 – Cyphoderia, Corothionella, Pseudocorythion
     * Family Paulinellidae De Saedeleer, 1934 – Paulinella, Ovulinata, Micropyxidiella
  * Order Zoelucasida Cavalier-Smith, 2014
     * Family Zoelucasidae Cavalier-Smith, 2014 – Zoelucasa
  