Phagomyxid
# Phagomyxid

Phagomyxids are a group of obligate endoparasitic protists belonging to the subphylum Endomyxa in Cercozoa. Taxonomically, they are united under a single family Phagomyxidae, order Phagomyxida, sister to the plasmodiophores.

## Ecology

Phagomyxids are mainly parasites of brown algae, but some can parasite oomycetes.

## 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
