Himatismenida

{{Short description|Order of protozoans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Collection Penard MHNG Specimen 110-1-2 Cochliopodium granulatum.tif

| image_caption = A preserved specimen of Cochliopodium sp., with some diatoms, from the Eugène Penard collection

| taxon = Himatismenida

| authority = Page, 1987

| subdivision_ranks = Families and genera

| subdivision =

• Parvamoebidae
• Parvamoeba
• Cochliopodiidae
• Chlamydamoeba
• Cochliopodium
• Ovalopodium

| synonyms = Cochliopodiida

}}

Himatismenida is an Amoebozoa order,{{cite web|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/313555|title=Himatismenida|access-date=2009-03-08}} in the class Discosea, along with Glycostylida and Dermamoebida.{{cite journal|date=August 2005|title=18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences of Cochliopodium (Himatismenida) and the phylogeny of Amoebozoa|journal=Protist|volume=156|issue=2|pages=215–24|doi=10.1016/j.protis.2005.03.003|pmid=16171188|vauthors=Kudryavtsev A, Bernhard D, Schlegel M, Chao EE, Cavalier-Smith T}} It contains species such as Cochliopodium gallicum.{{cite journal |vauthors=Kudryavtsev A, Smirnov A |title=Cochliopodium gallicum n. sp. (Himatismenida), an amoeba bearing unique scales, from cyanobacterial mats in the Camargue (France) |journal=Eur. J. Protistol. |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=3–7 |date=March 2006 |pmid=17070746 |doi=10.1016/j.ejop.2005.08.001 }}