Cutosea

Cutosea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Clade:	Evosea
Superclass:	Cutosa; Cavalier-Smith, 2016
Class:	Cutosea; Cavalier-Smith, 2016
Order:	Squamocutida; Cavalier-Smith, 2016
Families
	Squamamoebidae; Sapocribridae; Idionectidae;
Diversity
	4 species

Cutosea (from Latin cutis 'skin') is a small group of marine amoeboid protists proposed in 2016. It is a monotypic class of Amoebozoa containing the order Squamocutida (from Latin squama 'scale' and cutis 'skin'). Cutosean organisms are characterized by a cell coat of microscales separated from the cell membrane. Four genera, Armaparvus, Idionectes, Sapocribrum and Squamamoeba, belong to this group, distributed in three families.

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