ARCHIPILIOIDEA Haeckel, 1882

Suzuki, Noritoshi, Caulet, Jean-Pierre & Dumitrica, Paulian, 2021, A new integrated morpho- and molecular systematic classification of Cenozoic radiolarians (Class Polycystinea) - suprageneric taxonomy and logical nomenclatorial acts, Geodiversitas 43 (15), pp. 405-573 : 495

Superfamily ARCHIPILIOIDEA Haeckel, 1882

sensu Sandin, Not & Suzuki in Sandin et al. (2019)

Archipilida Haeckel, 1882: 427 [as a tribe]; 1887: 1133, 1134 [as a subfamily].

Archipiliicae – Campbell 1954: D117 [as a superfamily]. — Nakaseko 1957: 27 [as a superfamily]. — Dieci 1964: 185 [as a superfamily].

Archipiliilae – Campbell 1954: D117 [as a subsuperfamily]. — Nakaseko 1957: 27 [as a subsuperfamily]. — Dieci 1964: 185 [as a subsuperfamily].

Archipiliacea – Loeblich & Tappan 1961: 228 [as a superfamily].

Archipilioidea – Afanasieva et al. 2005: S291. — Afanasieva & Amon 2006: 138. — Sandin, Not & Suzuki in Sandin et al. 2019: 201.

DIAGNOSIS. — Archipilioidea are composed of practically single segmented shell, although upper and lower parts may be recognized by the position of the MB. The initial spicular system is characterized by a very short or missing MB, forming a three-pointed initial spicular system and a significant basal ring that is completely merged with the shell wall as part of the pore frame. The cephalic wall includes many arches or an arch-like meshwork.

REMARKS

This superfamily consists of the Archipiliidae and the Theophormididae , and was established in consistency with the molecular phylogeny analyses of Sandin et al. (2019). These analyses documented 100% PhyML bootstrap values with 10000 replicates (BS) and>0.99 posterior probabilities (PP). The morphological commonality between Archipilium and Enneaphormis is very limited.