{{Short description|Phylum of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Amoeboaphelidium.jpg | image_alt = Amoeboid zoospore of Amoeboaphelidium protococcarum. ps = pseudopodium, m = mitochondrium, n = nucleus. Scale bar: 1 μm. | image_caption = Amoeboid zoospore of ''Amoeboaphelidium protococcarum''. ps = pseudopodium, m = mitochondrion, n = nucleus. Scale bar: 1 μm. | display_parents = 4 | taxon = Aphelidiaceae | authority = Tedersoo et al. 2018<ref name="Tedersoo2018">{{citation|first1=Leho |last1=Tedersoo|first2=Santiago |last2=Sánchez-Ramírez|first3=Urmas |last3=Kõljalg |first4=Mohammad |last4=Bahram |first5=Markus |last5=Döring |first6=Dmitry |last6=Schigel |first7=Tom |last7=May |first8=Martin |last8=Ryberg |first9=Kessy |last9=Abarenkov|date=2018|title=High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses|journal=Fungal Diversity|volume=90|pages=135–159|doi=10.1007/s13225-018-0401-0|doi-access=free |hdl=10138/238983 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> | parent_authority = Tendersoo et al. 2018 | grandparent_authority = Tendersoo et al. 2018 | greatgrandparent_authority = Tendersoo et al. 2018 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = *''Amoebaphelidium'' *''Aphelidium'' *''Paraphelidium'' *''Pseudaphelidium'' }}
'''Aphelida''' are a phylum of Fungi that appears to be the sister to true fungi.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=CAVALIER-SMITH, Thomas |title=Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa |journal=European Journal of Protistology |year=2013 |volume =49 |issue=2 |pages=115–178 |issn=0932-4739 |doi=10.1016/j.ejop.2012.06.001 |pmid=23085100}}</ref><ref>{{citation | date=2016| author = Silar, Philippe| title = Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes| url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01263138|pages=1–462 |journal=HAL Archives-ouvertes }}</ref><ref name="Tedersoo2018" />
==Taxonomy== * Phylum '''Aphelidiomycota''' <small>Tedersoo 2018</small> [Aphelida <small>Karpov, Aleoshin & Mikhailov 2014</small>]<ref>{{Cite journal |author = Karpov|display-authors=et al |title = Morphology, phylogeny and ecology of the aphelids (Aphelidea, Opisthokonta) and proposal for the new superphylum Opisthosporidia |journal = Frontiers in Microbiology | volume = 5| pages = 112| year = 2014 | pmid = 24734027| doi = 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00112 |pmc = 3975115|doi-access=free }}</ref> ** Class '''Aphelidiomycetes''' <small>Tedersoo 2018</small> [Aphelidea <small>Gromov 2000</small>] *** Order '''Aphelidiales''' Tedersoo et al. 2018 [<nowiki/>Aphelidida <small>Gromov 2000 non Cavalier-Smith 2012</small>] **** Family '''Aphelididae''' <small>Gromov 2000</small> [Amoeboaphelidiidae <small>Cavalier-Smith 2012</small>] ***** Genus ''Amoeboaphelidium'' <small>Scherffel 1925 emend. Karpov 2014</small> *****Genus ''Paraphelidium'' <small>Karpov, Moreira & Lopez-Garcia 2017</small> *****Genus ''Pseudaphelidium'' <small>Schweikert & Schnepf 1996</small> ***** Genus ''Aphelidium'' <small>Zopf 1885 emend. Gromov 2000</small>
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