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Map projection classification - Tissot's indicatrices are perfect circles, but the projection is not conformal

Recently, led by the perfectly circular shape of the Tissot's indicatrices all over the projection plane, I have concluded that a particular projection is conformal. However, after calculating angular distortion, I have realized that it is actually not conformal.

My question is: How should I classify these projections, whose Tissot's indicatrices are perfect circles but the angular distortion is not zero (omega <> 0).