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Further, they are referring to animals in the strict sense. There are already a LOT of non-animal unicellular eukaryotes ("protists") known that have no mitochondrial DNA, and in at least one case, seem to have no mitochondrion at all [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27185558]. So this is...

Myxozoa are bona fide animals in the strict phylogenetic sense - they are very very unusual animals in terms of organismal organisation, but they are descended from large multicellular things that you would recognise as animals without a second thought.