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Ceratiomyxomycetes
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Ceratiomyxomycetes

Ceratiomyxales (in botanical nomenclature) or Protosporangiida (in zoological nomenclature) is an order of slime moulds, a type of amoeboid microorganisms capable of forming macroscopic fruiting bodies. It is the sole order of the class Ceratiomyxomycetes (botanical) or Ceratiomyxea (zoological). They are eumycetozoans, or "true" slime moulds, together with myxogastrids and dictyostelids.

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