Eumycetozoa
| Eumycetozoa | |
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| Fuligo septica, a myxogastrid | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Subphylum: | Conosa |
| Infraphylum: | Eumycetozoa Zopf 1884 ex L.S.Olive 1975 sensu Kang et al. 2017 |
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Eumycetozoa (from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû) 'true', μύκης (múkēs) 'fungus', and ζῷον (zôion) 'animal'), or true slime molds, 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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