Answer:
Any of various primitive organisms such as the slime moulds.
Step-by-step explanation:
- Name: "Protophyta" Sachs 1874
- Category: Phylum
- Proposed as: Phyl. nov.
- Subdivision:
- Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
- Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
- Total number of child taxa: 2
- Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status
- "Cysticetes" Ruska et al. 1947 not validly published
- Schizomycetes Nägeli 1857 (Approved Lists 1980) validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name in need of a replacement.