20200528 04445000 1.0 TRUE Xenophyophores Xenophyophores are very large, single celled protozoans belonging to the Foraminifera (suborder Astrorhizina) and the Xenophyophorea.NIWA’s Invertebrate Collection, located at the NIWA Greta Point campus in Wellington, is a repository for marine invertebrates from almost all phyla found in the New Zealand region, the wider Southwest Pacific and the Ross Sea. It houses an estimated 300,000 collection lots that have been collected over half a century of biological research (Schnabel et al. 2014). Collection records were extracted, using the database management software Specify, from the X database. NIWA-Specify, NIWA’s Invertebrate Collection