class Acrasiomycetes

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1.class Acrasiomycetes - cellular slime molds; in some classifications placed in kingdom ProtoctistaAcrasiomycetesclass - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more ordersdivision Gymnomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, Myxomycota - slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctistacellular slime mold - differing from true slime molds in being cellular and nucleate throughout the life cyclegenus Dictostylium - genus of slime molds that grow on dung and decaying vegetation