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Family PTYCHOCYLIDIDAE Kofoid & Campbell, 1929
Syns. Ptychocyclidae,
Ptychocyclididae,
Ptychocylidae

Lorica bell- or kettle-shaped, with elongate bowl; oral rim toothed or with lip; wall trilaminated, alveolar in midsection; all forms marine (mostly eupelagic); no fossil species.

Cymatocylis Laackmann, 1910
(syn. Cymatocyclis).
Very many (ca. 50) species.
Favella Jörgensen, 1924.
Many spp. [Genus not well assigned here?]
Protocymatocylis Kofoid & Campbell, 1929
(syn. Protocymatocyclis).
Few species.
Ptychocylis Brandt, 1906
(syns. Pthocylis, Ptychocyclis).
Several species.