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Ichthyochytrium is a fungal genus in the Chytridiales of uncertain familial placement. A monotypic genus, it contains the single rare species Ichthyochytrium vulgare, described from Germany by Marianne Plehn in 1920. A parasite of freshwater fishes, it forms spherical bodies measuring 5–20 μm that have refractive granules. It typically attacks the lung and gills.

References

1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
2. Plehn M. (1920). "Neue Parasiten in Haut and Kiemen von Fischen. Ichthyochytrium und Mucophilus". Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde Abteilung 1 (in German). 85: 275–81.
3. Reichenbach-Klinke H, Elkan E (1965). The Principal Diseases of Lower Vertebrates. Elsevier. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-4832-6376-2.

External links

• Ichthyochytrium in Index Fungorum

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