Gymnosphaerid

Gymnosphaerids
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Rhizaria
Clade:	incertae sedis
Order:
Family:	; (Poche, 1913)
Species
	Actinolophus?; Wagnerella?; Actinocoryne; Gymnosphaera; Hedraiophrys;
Synonyms
	Axoplasthelida Febvre-Chevalier, 1984; Axoplastheliales; Gymnidae; Hedraiophryidae; Wagnerellidae Poche 1913;

The gymnosphaerids (or Gymnosphaerida)^[1] are a small group of heliozoan protists found in marine environments. They tend to be roughly spherical with radially directed axopods, supported by microtubules in a triangular-hexagonal array arising from an amorphous central granule.

^ Nikolaev SI, Berney C, Fahrni JF, et al. (May 2004). "The twilight of Heliozoa and rise of Rhizaria, an emerging supergroup of amoeboid eukaryotes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (21): 8066–71. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308602101. PMC 419558. PMID 15148395.

[pmid15148395-1] Nikolaev SI, Berney C, Fahrni JF, et al. (May 2004). "The twilight of Heliozoa and rise of Rhizaria, an emerging supergroup of amoeboid eukaryotes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (21): 8066–71. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308602101. PMC 419558. PMID 15148395.

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