Phagomyxids | |
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Right column: Phagomyxida. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Rhizaria |
Phylum: | Endomyxa |
Class: | Phytomyxea |
Order: | Phagomyxida Cavalier-Smith, 1993 |
Family: | Phagomyxidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993 |
Genera | |
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Phagomyxids are a group of obligate endoparasitic protists belonging to the subphylum Endomyxa in Cercozoa.[1] Taxonomically, they are united under a single family Phagomyxidae, order Phagomyxida, sister to the plasmodiophores.[2]
Phagomyxids are mainly parasites of brown algae,[3] but some can parasite oomycetes.[4]
The group was created in 1993 by Cavalier-Smith, when it contained only the genus Phagomyxa.[2] Since then, Maullinia, a genus previously in Plasmodiophoridae, has joined the phagomyxids.[4]