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Ophiostoma
Sign in to saveOphiostoma is a genus of fungi within the family Ophiostomataceae. It was circumscribed in 1919 by mycologists Hans Sydow and Paul Sydow.
Species
Genus
- PhylumNematoda
- ClassChromadorea
- OrderRhabditida
- FamilyCystidicolidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Ceratocystidaceae
- Collections
- BPI, MEL, NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), UFPE, UPS
- Recorded in
- Venezuela, Australia, Guyana, Colombia, United States, Brasil, Ukraine, Brazil
Research
422 papers- Geosmithia-Ophiostoma: a New Fungus-Fungus Association.Microbial ecology · 2018
- Ophiostoma haidaense, sp. nov., a new member of the O. piceae species complex associated with yellow-cedar, Callitropsis nootkatensis.Mycologia · 2024
- Ophiostoma quercus: An unusually diverse and globally widespread tree-infecting fungus.Fungal biology · 2018
- The Mitogenomes of Ophiostoma minus and Ophiostoma piliferum and Comparisons With Other Members of the Ophiostomatales.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021
- Deciphering the molecular components of the quorum sensing system in the fungus Ophiostoma piceae.Microbiology spectrum · 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ophiostomataceae
- Image
- Ophiostoma minus.jpeg
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- taxon name
- Ophiostoma
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Ophiostoma
- taxon author citation
- Syd. & P. Syd.
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ophiostoma is a genus of fungi within the family Ophiostomataceae. It was circumscribed in 1919 by mycologists Hans Sydow and Paul Sydow.
Note the former type species of Ophiostoma piliferum is now Ceratocystis pilifera, Ceratocystidaceae family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ophiostoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.