Protosteliales

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

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]

Protosteloid amoebae, also called protostelids, are amoebae that are capable of making simple fruiting bodies consisting of a cellular stalk topped by one or a few spores.[8] All species are microscopic and are typically found on dead plant matter where they consume bacteria, yeasts, and fungal spores. Since protostelids are amoebae that make spores, they are considered to be slime molds.[9]

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  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. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019248R. 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. Bibcode:1997PNAS...9412007B. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.22.12007. PMC 23686. PMID 9342353.
  8. ^ Olive, Lindsay S. (1975). The mycetozoans. New York: Academic press. ISBN 9780125262507. OCLC 1009339.
  9. ^ Spiegel, Frederick W.; Steven L. Stephenson; Harold W. Keller; Donna L Moore; James C. Cavendar (2004). "Mycetozoans". In Gregory M. Mueller; Gerald F. Bills; Mercedes S. Foster (eds.). Biodiversity of fungi : inventory and monitoring methods. New York: Elsevier Academic Press. pp. 547–576. ISBN 0125095511.