Phagomyxid

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
Right column: Phagomyxida.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Rhizaria
Phylum:	Endomyxa
Class:	Phytomyxea
Order:	Phagomyxida Cavalier-Smith, 1993
Family:	Phagomyxidae Cavalier-Smith, 1993
Genera
Phagomyxa Maullinia

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