What is "myxomycota"

Myxomycota \Myxomycota\ n. (Biol.) The slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista.

Syn: division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, division Gymnomycota.

Myxomycota and Myxomycetes are terms used to refer to some fungus-like amoebozoa:

• Infraphylum Mycetozoa (which encompasses Myxogastria among other classes)
• Class Myxogastria alone