Chytridium

Chytridium is a genus of fungi in the family Chytridiaceae.

Not to be confused with the protist genus Crithidia.

Chytridium
5. Chytridium olla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Chytridiomycota
Class:
Chytridiomycetes
Order:
Chytridiales
Family:
Chytridiaceae
Genus:
Chytridium

Species

Many, including:

With the culture and characterization of Chytridium olla, the type species of the order, the limits of the Chytridiales were established.[2]

Names brought to synonymy
  • Chytridium (Olpidium) Braun 1856, a synonym for Olpidium

References
  1. Braun, A. (1851). Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze. Engelmann W, Leipzig (description page 198)
  2. Vélez, C.G.; Letcher, P.M.; Schultz, S.; Powell, M.J.; Churchill, P.F. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetic and zoospore ultrastructural analyses of Chytridium olla establish the limits of a monophyletic Chytridiales". Mycologia. 103 (1): 118–130. doi:10.3852/10-001. PMID 20943553.
  • Karling JS. (1971). On Chytridium Braun, Diplochytridium n. g. and Canteria n. g. (Chytridiales). Archiv für Mikrobiologie. volume 76, pages 126–131, doi:10.1007/bf00411786
  • Alexander Braun, 1856: Über Chytridium, eine Gattung einzelliger Schmarotzergewächse auf Algen und Infusorien (On Chytridium, a genus of unicellular parasites on algae and infusoria)


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