Family Centropyxidae Jung, 1942

Diagnosis: Lobose testate amoebae with shell of granular organic material, dorsally with more or less mineral particles or diatoms, ventrally smooth or with much smaller grains; dorsal surface rounded, ventral side flat to concave, with a ventral aperture, which may be circular to uneven, but displaced towards one end; shell may be flattened at the apertural end; at the posterior end or all around the periphery some spines may be present.

Type genus: Centropyxis.