| Polysphondylium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Dictyostelia |
| Order: | Dictyosteliida |
| Family: | Dictyosteliidae |
| Genus: | Polysphondylium Bref. (1884) |
| Type species | |
| Polysphondylium violaceum Bref. (1885) | |
Polysphondylium is a genus of cellular slime mold, including the species Polysphondylium pallidum. The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1884.
Species
- Polysphondylium acuminatum Vadell & Cavender 1998 nom. inv.
- Polysphondylium aureum Hodgson & Wheller 2001 nom. inv.
- Polysphondylium fuscans Perrigo & Romeralo 2012
- Polysphondylium laterosorum (Cavender 1970) Baldauf, Sheikh & Thulin 2017
- Polysphondylium patagonicum Vadell et al. 2011
- Polysphondylium violaceum Brefeld 1885
See also
- Dictyostelium so-called cellular slime mold.
References
- Kawabe Y, Morio T, James JL, Prescott AR, Tanaka Y, Schaap P (2009). "Activated cAMP receptors switch encystation into sporulation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (17): 7089–94. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.7089K. doi:10.1073/pnas.0901617106. PMC 2678454. PMID 19369200.
- Heidel AJ, Glöckner G (2008). "Mitochondrial genome evolution in the social amoebae". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25 (7): 1440–50. doi:10.1093/molbev/msn088. PMID 18413355.
- Brefeld O. (1884). "Myxomyceten I. Polysphondylium violaceum und Dictyostelium mucoroides". Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie (in German). 6: 1–34.
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