Protosteliales

Protosteliomycetes/Protosteliales (ICBN) or Protostelea/Protostelia/Protosteliida[1] (ICZN) is a grouping of slime molds from the phylum Mycetozoa.[2][3] The name can vary depending upon the taxon used. Other names include Protostelea,[4] Protostelia,[5] and Protostelida.[6] When not implying a specific level of classification, the term "protostelid" or "protosteloid amoeba" is sometimes used.[7]

Protosteliales
Ceratiomyxa sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Amoebozoa
Infraphylum:	Mycetozoa
Class:	Protostelea
Order:	Protosteliida Shadwick & Spiegel in Adl et al. 2012
Families and genera
Cavosteliaceae Ceratiomyxaceae Protosteliaceae

Classification

It includes for example the following genera:

• Cavosteliaceae (family)
  • Cavostelium (genus)
  • Planoprotostelium (genus)
• Ceratiomyxaceae (family)
  • Ceratiomyxa (genus)
• Protosteliaceae (family)
  • Protostelium (genus)

As a subclass, Protostelia has been described as paraphyletic to the protostelid clade, as Protostelia excludes the clade of myxomycetes, which are embedded in the protostelid clade.[8]

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  Ceratiomyxa sp.
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  Ceratiomyxa sp.
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  Amoeboid phase of Protostelium sp.
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  Fruiting bodies of Protostelium sp.

See also

• Protosteloid

References

1. "Protosporangium: a New Genus of Protostelids". Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
2. "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov". Retrieved 2009-03-27.
3. "PROTOSTELIALES L.S. Olive, 1967 (ceratiomyxomycete and protosteliomycete fungi)". Archived from the original on 2007-08-06. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
4. Ruggiero, Michael A.; Gordon, Dennis P.; Orrell, Thomas M.; Bailly, Nicolas; Bourgoin, Thierry; Brusca, Richard C.; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Kirk, Paul M. (2015-04-29). "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms". PLOS One. 10 (4): e0119248. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4418965. PMID 25923521.
5. Dykstra M (February 1978). "Ultrastructure of the genus Schizoplasmodiopsis (Protostelia)". J. Protozool. 25 (1): 44–9. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1978.tb03865.x. PMID 566326.
6. Olive LS (1967). "The Protostelida--a new order of the Mycetozoa". Mycologia. 59 (1): 1–29. doi:10.2307/3756938. JSTOR 3756938. PMID 6068269.
7. Baldauf SL, Doolittle WF (October 1997). "Origin and evolution of the slime molds (Mycetozoa)". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 (22): 12007–12. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.22.12007. PMC 23686. PMID 9342353.
8. Spiegel FW (1991). "A proposed phylogeny of the flagellated protostelids". BioSystems. 25 (1–2): 113–20. doi:10.1016/0303-2647(91)90017-F. PMID 1854909.