Subkingdom Myxobionta
Organisms which are animal-like in most of their life cycles, that is, they move around like amoeba and engulf bacteria and other solid matter. Their reproductive bodies contain cellulose which is similar to the higher fungi.
Division: Gymnomycota (Slime molds)
1. Class: Acrasiomycetes
Order: Dictyosteliales
The Acrasiomycetes are the cellular slime molds which are free living organisms; cells known as myxamoeba aggregate to form a pseudoplasmodia and eventually muticellular slugs.
Dictyostelium
2.Class: Myxomycetes
Order: Physarales
The Myxomycetes, known as the true slime molds, are acellular and are characterized by a plasmodium, a free living, creeping multinucleate mass ofprotoplasm, enveloped by a slime sheath and totally devoid of cell walls.
Physarum
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