found: Ing, B. The myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland, c1999:p. 1 ("Myxomycetes are defined as eukaryotic microorganisms with a plasmodium as the assimilative stage and a sexually produced resting spore as the propagule ... For generations they have been shuffled back and forth between the animal and plant kingdoms, being regarded either as amoeboid protozoans, the Mycetozoa, or as a group of fungi, the Myxomycetes. In these more enlightened, and better equipped, times we are able to show that they possess mitochondria with tubular cristae and this makes them clearly members of the kingdom Protozoa, not fungi, and indeed, not animals! This fact does not stop them from being treated as 'honorary fungi' as they occupy the same habitats, disperse their spores and are studied by methods which are characteristic of the fungi in the broadest sense"; slime moulds)
found: ITIS, via WWW, Aug. 14, 2000(Myxomycetes. Rank: Class. Division: Myxomycota. Kingdom: Fungi. Usage: accepted. Vernacular names: acellular slime molds, plasmoidial slime molds, true slime molds)
found: Index to organism names, via WWW, Aug. 14, 2000(In Zoological record animal names database: Name: Myxomycetes, Group: Protozoa, Classification: Myxogastria. ZR taxonomic hierarchy: Protozoa, Sarcomastigophora, Sarcodina, Rhizopoda, Eumycetozoea, Myxogastria, Myxomycetes)
