Hypermastigia (hypermastigids) within microbiology, is the name used for a group of flagellate endosymbionts which were placed under the Excavata class.

They are now treated as belonging to one of the groups Tritrichomonadea, Hypotrichomonadea, or Trichomonadea within the Parabasalia.

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