Hyperamoeba is a former genus of amoeboid protists, described in 1923.1 It has been shown to be polyphyletic, and the species formerly contained in it have been divided among the genera Physarum, Stemonitis and Didymium.2
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- Julia Walochnik; Rolf Michel; Horst Aspöck (2004). "A molecular biological approach to the phylogenetic position of the genus Hyperamoeba". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 51 (4): 433–440. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2004.tb00391.x. PMID 15352326. S2CID 22641939.
- Anna Maria Fiore-Donno; Akiko Kamono; Ema E. Chao; Manabu Fukui; Thomas Cavalier-Smith (March 2010). "Invalidation of Hyperamoeba by transferring its species to other genera of Myxogastria". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 57 (2): 189–196. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00466.x. PMID 20113379. S2CID 1522640.