Superfamily PYLOBOTRYDOIDEA Haeckel, 1882 n. stat.

Pylobotrida Haeckel, 1882: 440 [as a subfamily].

Cannobotrydicae – Campbell 1954: D143 [nomen dubium, as a superfamily].

Cannobotryoidea – Petrushevskaya 1971a: 154 [nomen dubium] ( sensu emend.); 1971b: 988; 1975: 588; 1981: 307-309; 1986: 136. — Petrushevskaya & Kozlova 1972: 554. — Yeh 1987: 86 ( sensu emend.). — Afanasieva et al. 2005: S303. — Afanasieva & Amon 2006: 153.

Cannobotryoida [sic] – Amon 2000: 61 [nomen dubium] (= Cannobtrydoidea) [as an order].

DIAGNOSIS. — Monotype superfamily. See the diagnosis of the family Pylobotrydidae .

REMARKS

The Pylobotrydidae (originally Cannobotryidae) are placed within the clade of the superfamily Plagiacanthoidea by molecular phylogenetic analysis, (Sandin et al. 2019). According to the hierarchy and consistency in Eukaryotes (Cavalier-Smith et al. 2018; Adl et al. 2019), the order rank for this taxon is unacceptable at the present time.