Family Reticulomyxidae Page, 1987, emend. Hülsmann, 2014

This taxon includes all known naked freshwater and soil foraminifera.

Diagnosis: Large plasmodia with hundreds or thousands of small nuclei involved in bidirectional streaming. Obligatory alternation of sessile and motile stages. Locomotion by migration via one or several giant pseudopodia with pre-dominantly unidirectional centrifugal streaming of protoplasm. Cyst formation. Tectum as (protective) covering. Occasional formation of protoplasmic propagules (blisters, blebs) from pseudopodia and central areas. Omnivorous or predatory. Occurring in freshwater habitats.
Type genus: Reticulomyxa Nauss, 1949

The family also includes the genera Wobo Hülsmann, 1986, 2006, Haplomyxa Dellinger, 2014 and Dracomyxa Hülsmann, 2014.

Habitat: Freshwater and soil.