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