''Polysphondylium'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomencla ...
of cellular
slime mold
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mu ...
, 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 slim ...
''.
[ The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1884.][
]
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 as ...
'' so-called cellular slime mold.
References
Amoebozoa genera
Mycetozoa
Taxa named by Julius Oscar Brefeld
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