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Myxomycetes
Myxomycetes Myx`o*my*ce"tes, n. pl. [NL.; Gr. ? mucus, slime + myceles.] (Bot.) A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta). They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food. -- Myx`o*my*ce"tous, a.

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- Myxogastria/Myxogastrea (myxogastrids, ICZN) or Myxomycetes (ICN) is a class of slime molds that contains 5 orders, 14 families, 62 genera, and 888 species...
- Fuligo septica is a species of slime mold in the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as scrambled egg slime or flowers of tan because of its peculiar...
- Myxomycota and Myxomycetes are terms used to refer to some fungus-like amoebozoa: Infraphylum Mycetozoa (which encomp****es Myxogastria among other classes)...
- Physarum polycephalum, an acellular slime mold or myxomycete po****rly known as "the blob", is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic...
- mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary, in 1860 and 1887, classified the Myxomycetes (plasmodial slime molds) and Acrasieae (cellular slime molds) as Mycetozoa...
- phylogenetics. This fungal group is distinct from the structurally similar myxomycetes (slime molds) and oomycetes (water molds). The discipline of biology...
- include members of the family Philomycidae, which feed on slime molds (myxomycetes), and the Ariolimacidae, which primarily consume mushrooms (basidiomycetes)...
- Steven L.; Schnittler, Martin; Novozhilov, Yuri K. (February 2008). "Myxomycete diversity and distribution from the fossil record to the present". Biodiversity...
- original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020. "Slime Molds: Myxomycetes" (PDF). Cornell University. Retrieved 21 April 2020. "Introduction to...
- Schmidt, Alexander R. (December 2019). "Morphological stasis in the first myxomycete from the Mesozoic, and the likely role of cryptobiosis". Scientific Reports...