Phagomyxid
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Ecology
Phagomyxids are mainly parasites of brown algae, but some can parasite oomycetes.
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Taxonomy
The group was created in 1993 by Cavalier-Smith, when it contained only the genus Phagomyxa. Since then, Maullinia, a genus previously in Plasmodiophoridae, has joined the phagomyxids.
- Phagomyxa Karling, 1944
- Maullinia I. Maier, E.R. Parodi, Westermeier & D.G. Müll., 2000
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