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Stemonitopsis
Sign in to saveStemonitopsis 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.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomProtozoa
- PhylumMycetozoa
- ClassMyxomycetes
- OrderStemonitidales
- FamilyStemonitidaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Stemonitidaceae
- Collections
- UFPE, MNHN, O, MBM
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Madagascar, Norway
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Stemonitidaceae
- Image
- Stemonitopsis typhina.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Stemonitopsis
- taxon common name
- コムラサキホコリ属
- Commons category
- Stemonitopsis
- taxon author citation
- (Nann.-Bremek.) Nann.-Bremek.
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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.
==Species== , there are 10 species in the genus. Stemonitopsis aequalis Stemonitopsis amoena Stemonitopsis curiosa Stemonitopsis gracilis Stemonitopsis hyperopta Stemonitopsis microspora Stemonitopsis peritricha Stemonitopsis reticulata Stemonitopsis subcaespitosa Stemonitopsis typhina
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stemonitopsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.