Talk:Plasmodiophora bicaudata

Taxonomy section
I removed the taxonomy section and, earlier, the fungi comments because these organisms, according to the sources cited, were once known as slime molds, a group that was never remotely monophyletic. In modern taxonomies, with the advent of gene sequencing, it is understood that Plasmodiophora is not remotely related to fungi. I was confused that WoRMS calls it a fungi, but when I checked their citation for the taxonomy, it linked to a page that clearly calls it a protozoan, not a fungus.

I would not even attempt to straighten out the taxonomy of a Rhizarian, much too complex and outside of my field. Some help here would be useful. -68.107.136.227 (talk) 06:15, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I asked someone about this and they wrote: Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:03, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

"Plasmodiophorids are an enigmatic group of obligate biotrophic pathogens of higher plants. Together with their sister group phagomyxids, which infect stramenopiles, they form the monophyletic eukaryote clade phytomyxids. They have long been treated as a basal group of fungi, but recent molecular phylogenies point to a close affiliation with the protozoan phylum Cercozoa." and "The phytomyxids (plasmodiophorids and phagomyxids) comprise a monophyletic group of eukaryotes which were originally considered as protists, later as fungi, and are now considered as members of the protist supergroup Rhizaria ..."
 * I think that is pretty much what I just said, but asking some random person does not give us text for a general reader. Are you saying you asked someone and they quoted this out of the article? The reader always has the option, with taxoboxes, to explore further. We need to provide a basic parqgraph for the general audience, but cited. That is all. -198.228.216.176 (talk) 02:05, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I think that is pretty much what I just said, but asking some random person does not give us text for a general reader. Are you saying you asked someone and they quoted this out of the article? The reader always has the option, with taxoboxes, to explore further. We need to provide a basic parqgraph for the general audience, but cited. That is all. -198.228.216.176 (talk) 02:05, 31 May 2013 (UTC)