''Polysphondylium'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of cellular
slime mold
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are near-microscopic; those in the Myxogastria ...
, including the species ''
Polysphondylium pallidum
''Polysphondylium pallidum'' is a species of cellular slime mould, a member of the phylum Mycetozoa.
Taxonomy
The lectotype of ''Polysphondylium pallidum'' was first described from Liberia where it was growing on the dung of an ass. This slime ...
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[ The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1884.][
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Species
*'' Polysphondylium acuminatum'' Vadell & Cavender 1998 nom. inv.
*'' Polysphondylium aureum'' Hodgson & Wheller 2001 nom. inv.
*'' Polysphondylium fuscans'' Perrigo & Romeralo 2012
*'' Polysphondylium laterosorum'' (Cavender 1970) Baldauf, Sheikh & Thulin 2017
*'' Polysphondylium patagonicum'' Vadell et al. 2011
*'' Polysphondylium violaceum'' Brefeld 1885
See also
*''Dictyostelium
''Dictyostelium'' is a genus of single- and multi-celled eukaryotic, phagotrophic bacterivores. Though they are Protista and in no way fungal, they traditionally are known as "slime molds". They are present in most terrestrial ecosystems a ...
'' so-called cellular slime mold.
References
Dictyostelid genera
Mycetozoa
Taxa named by Julius Oscar Brefeld
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