Xenophyophorea
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Xenophyophorea is a clade of foraminiferans. Xenophyophores are multinucleate unicellular organisms found on the ocean floor throughout the world's oceans, at depths of . They are a kind of foraminiferan that extract minerals from their surroundings and use them to form an exoskeleton known as a test.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Xenophyophorea is referenced by 133 other articles, and connects out to Ascetosporea, Foraminifera and Imbricatea.
Vinony files it under Extremophiles, Foraminifera classes and Incomplete lists from September 2020.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Part of
- Monothalamea
- Parent taxon
- Foraminifera
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- taxon common name
- xenophyophore
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- Xenophyophorea
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- superorder
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- Xenophyophorea
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Naming and classification
- Anatomy
- Growth and reproduction
- Habitat and range
- Feeding
- Fossil record
- Ecology
- List of genera
- See also
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Xenophyophorea is a clade of foraminiferans. Xenophyophores are multinucleate unicellular organisms found on the ocean floor throughout the world's oceans, at depths of . They are a kind of foraminiferan that extract minerals from their surroundings and use them to form an exoskeleton known as a test.
They were first described by Henry Bowman Brady in 1883. They are abundant on abyssal plains, and in some regions are the dominant species. Fifteen genera and 75 species have been described, varying widely in size. The largest, Syringammina fragilissima, is among the largest known coenocytes, reaching up to in diameter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xenophyophorea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.