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Stemonitopsis

Stemonitopsis is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. First circumscribed by Dutch botanist Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp in 1967 as a subgenus of Comatricha, she later elevated the grouping to generic status in 1975. The type species is Stemonitopsis hyperopta, which was originally described by Charles Meylan in 1919 as Stemonitis hyperopta.

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Stemonitopsis
Stemonitopsis typhina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Myxogastria
Order: Stemonitidales
Family: Amaurochaetaceae
Genus: Stemonitopsis
(Nann.-Bremek.) Nann.-Bremek., 1975
Type species
Stemonitopsis hyperopta
(Meyl.) Nann.-Bremek., 1975
Synonyms
  • Comatricha subgen. Stemonitopsis Nann.-Bremek., 1967

Stemonitopsis is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae.1 First circumscribed by Dutch botanist Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp in 1967 as a subgenus of Comatricha,2 she later elevated the grouping to generic status in 1975.3 The type species is Stemonitopsis hyperopta, which was originally described by Charles Meylan in 1919 as Stemonitis hyperopta.4

Species

As of June 2016, there are 10 species in the genus.5

References

References

  1. Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN 1179-3163. S2CID 108783142.
  2. Nannenga-Bremekamp, N.E. (1967). "Notes on Myxomycetes XII. A revision of the Stemonitales". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 70 (2): 201–216. PMID 4226970.
  3. Nannenga-Bremekamp, N.E. (1974). "De Nederlandse Myxomyceten" (in Norwegian). Zutphen: 203. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Meylan, C. (1918). "Myxomycètes nouveaux". Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 52: 95–97.
  5. Lado, C; Hernández-Crespo, J.C. "Nomen.eumycetozoa.com (version 23rd June 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 27 August 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2015.