Phagomyxid
Group of pathogenic protists
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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]
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| Right column: Phagomyxida. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Rhizaria |
| Phylum: | Endomyxa |
| Superclass: | Proteomyxia |
| Class: | Phytomyxea |
| Order: | Phagomyxida Cavalier-Smith, 1993 |
| Family: | Phagomyxidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993 |
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Ecology
Phagomyxids are mainly parasites of brown algae,[3] but some can parasite oomycetes.[4]
Taxonomy
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]
- Phagomyxa Karling, 1944
- Maullinia I. Maier, E.R. Parodi, Westermeier & D.G. Müll., 2000