Physarales

Physarales
Physarum psittacinum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Physarales T.Macbr., 1922
Families
Didymiaceae Lamprodermataceae Physaraceae

Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamprodermataceae, and the Physaraceae. ^[1] Physarales was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride and published in 1922. ^[2]

Undescribed Family

There is evidence of an undescribed family within Physarales that bridges Didymiaceae and Lamprodermataceae, which contains the monotypic genus Tasmaniomyxa. ^[3]

References

1. Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN   1179-3163.
2. Macbride TH. (1922). The North American Slime-moulds (2 ed.). New York: Macmillan. p. 22.
3. Lloyd, Sarah J.; Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Moreno, Gabriel; Villalba, Ángela L.; Schnittler, Martin (2023). "Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata, a new genus and new species of myxomycete from Tasmania". Mycologia. 116 (1): 170–183. doi:10.1080/00275514.2023.2274252. ISSN   1557-2536.