title: Phagomyxid
text: # 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
  