''Brefeldia'' is an
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 nom ...
of
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 mul ...
s in the family
Amaurochaetaceae
Amaurochaetaceae is an family of slime molds in the order Stemonitidales.
Genera
*'' Amaurochaete''
*'' Brefeldia''
*''Comatricha
''Comatricha'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. As of 2015, Index Fungorum
''Index ...
.
The genus name of ''Brefeldia'' is in honour of
Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839 – 1925), a German botanist and mycologist.
The genus was
circumscribed by Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky in 1873 and appears to be
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...
, containing the species ''
Brefeldia maxima''
[Rostafínsky JT (1873) ''Versuch Syst. Mycetozoen (Strassburg)'': 8, p. 20.]
References
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Myxogastria
Amoebozoa genera
