Echinosteliales
life cycle of Barbeyella minutissima. A) Sporangium; b) through e) open sporangium; b) from the side; c) and d) from above; e) transparent peridium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Infraphylum:	Eumycetozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Echinosteliales G.W.Martin, 1961
Families
Clastodermataceae Echinosteliaceae

The Echinosteliales are an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains two families, the Clastodermataceae and the Echinosteliaceae. Echinosteliales was circumscribed by George Willard Martin and published in 1961.^[1]