Pompholyxophrys

{{Short description|Genus of single-celled organisms}}

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| domain = Eukaryota

| unranked_superregnum = Opisthokonta

| unranked_regnum = Holomycota

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| classis =

| ordo = Rotosphaerida

| familia = Pompholyxophryidae

| genus = Pompholyxophrys

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| subdivision_ranks = Species

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}}

Pompholyxophrys is a genus of Opisthokonta appearing as a scale-bearing filose amoeba.{{cite journal|author=Galindo|display-authors=etal|year=2019|title=Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi|journal=Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B|volume=374|issue=1786|pages=20190094|doi=10.1098/rstb.2019.0094|pmid=31587649 |pmc=6792443}}

It includes the species Pompholyxophrys punicea.[https://archive.today/20130105180304/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119515671/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Wiley Interscience]