Where should organisms in Myxomycota be classified? Give characteristics of these organisms which you used to place them in a taxonomic unit and the source you used to find their characteristics. Do NOT copy and paste from any website; do not use any word which you cannot define in your posts. Solution Myxomycota are also called as slime moulds. They are differs from normal fungi because of their vegetative body consists of only protoplast bounded by membrane and devoid of cellwall and also for their phagotrophic mode of nutrition. They are either holocarpic or eucarpic and they exhibit in variable colouration. They are classified in to: Ascariomycetes, Hydromyxomycetes, Myxomycetes and Plasmodiophoroomycetes. They key charecteristics for the above classifications are:.