Eumycetozoa
Taxonomic group of slime molds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a specific clade of slime molds. For the similar group including some unrelated slime molds, see Mycetozoa.
Eumycetozoa (from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû) 'true' μύκης (múkēs) 'fungus' and ζῷον (zôion) 'animal'), or true slime molds,[7] is a diverse group of protists that behave as slime molds and develop fruiting bodies, either as sorocarps or as sporocarps. It is a monophyletic group or clade within the phylum Amoebozoa that contains the myxogastrids, dictyostelids and protosporangiids.
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Fuligo septica, a myxogastrid | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
Subphylum: | Conosa |
Infraphylum: | Eumycetozoa Zopf 1884 ex L.S.Olive 1975 sensu Kang et al. 2017[lower-alpha 1] |
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