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Is this a family, genus, or what? article just says "group".

That was deliberate. Right now relationships among the major groups of protists are very unclear, so many workers in the field have abandoned taxonomic ranks for the time being, and the remainder don't pay very much attention to them. This is simply because they are too likely to change back and forth to be of any use. The Acantharea themselves are variously ranked as anything from a subclass (or even order) up to a phylum, depending on whether one tries to retain the Radiolaria, Actinopoda and Sarcodina as taxa, replace them with other groups, or simply abandon them and promote the subdivisions. I figured it would be best not to worry about this and leave them unranked until some day when the taxonomy hopefully stabilizes.

I am not a fan of abandoning taxonomic levels but in this case it is almost certainly sensibleJeremy Young (talk) 15:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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