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Family DICTYOCYSTIDAE Haeckel, 1873

Lorica with dense bowl; collar with open arched frames or windows (latter with or without panes); wall of bowl reticulate and, in some species, agglutinated; all forms marine (eupelagic); no true fossil species.

[Some radiolarian fossils are superficially very similar in appearance]

Dictyocysta Ehrenberg, 1854.
Many to very many spp.
Wangiella Nie, 1934.
Single species.