Echinosteliida

Echinosteliida
Systematics
Classification : Creature Domain : Eukaryotes (eukaryota) without rank: Amorphea without rank: Amoebozoa without rank: Myxogastria Order : Echinosteliida
Scientific name
Echinosteliida
HW Keller & TE Brooks , 1976

The Echinosteliida are an order of slime molds from the Myxogastria group with around 20 species. Due to their small size, they are mostly overlooked in the wild.

Features and ecology

The species of Echinosteliida are extremely small. Their representatives have pedunculated sporangia with a diameter of usually less than 0.5 millimeters, rarely up to 1.5 millimeters. The spore container is round, the spore masses white, pink or light brown.

Echinosteliida species mostly colonize the bark of living trees and climbing plants, especially the species of the genus Echinostelium are common there.

Systematics

The order was first described in 1976 by HW Keller and TE Brooks and comprises 3 genera in two families :

• Echinosteliedae family
  • Echinostelium
• Family Clastodermidae
  • Barbeyella
  • Clastoderma

Its exact position within the myxogastria is unclear, and the results of molecular genetic studies so far are contradictory.

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael J. Dykstra, Harold W. Keller: Mycetozoa In: John J. Lee, GF Leedale, P. Bradbury (Eds.): An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa . tape 2 . Allen, Lawrence 2000, ISBN 1-891276-23-9 .
2. ↑ Anna Maria Fiore-Donno, Sergey I. Nikolaev, Michaela Nelson, Jan Pawlowski, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Sandra L. Baldauf: Deep Phylogeny and Evolution of Slime Molds (Mycetozoa) In: Protist, Volume 161, Issue 1, p. 55-70, 2010