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Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are microscopic; those in the Myxogastria form larger plasmodial slime molds visible to the naked eye.
Life cycle. Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa.Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime.
nomen.eumycetozoa.com is an online nomenclatural information system of slime moulds (Myxomycetes, Dictyostelids and Protostelids) of the world. Photo gallery Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine; Introduction to the "Slime Molds" Slime Mold Photos Life cycle of Reticularia lycoperdon at MushooMania.com. Video footage of common slime moulds.
The cellular slime mold was formerly considered to be fungi following their discovery in 1869 by Brefeld. Although they resemble fungi in some respects, they have been included in the kingdom Protista. [4] Individual cells resemble small amoebae in their movement and feeding, and so are referred to as myxamoebae.
Physarum polycephalum, an acellular [1] slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", [2] is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle : the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a ...
Fuligo septica is a species of slime mold in the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as scrambled egg slime or flowers of tan [ 2 ] because of its peculiar yellowish appearance. It is also known as dog vomit slime mold and is relatively common with a worldwide distribution, often being found on bark mulch in urban areas after heavy rain or ...
Brefeldia maxima is a species of non-parasitic plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as the tapioca slime mold because of its peculiar pure white, tapioca pudding-like appearance. [3] A common species with a worldwide distribution, particularly in North America and Europe. [4]
Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described numerous slime moulds as Myxogasteres in 1829. [5] Species in the class Myxogastria are colloquially known as plasmodial or acellular slime moulds. Some consider the Myxogastria a separate kingdom, with an unsettled phylogeny because of conflicting molecular and developmental data.