Full name:

Trichomycetes – Fungi Associated with Arthropods

Short name:

Trichomycetes

Version:

8.0, Sep 2008

Release date:

September 5th, 2008

Authors/editors:

RW Lichtwardt

Taxonomic coverage:

Fungi - Zygomycota - Trichomycetes

Number of species names:

289 accepted names; 72 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

2 accepted names; 2 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

365

Abstract:

The trichomycetes (Fungi, class Trichomycetes plus ecologically related protozoans) are a cosmopolitan group of organisms that grow obligately in the guts of insects, crustaceans and millipedes that live in freshwater, marine or terrestrial habitats. Many trichomycetes appear to be commensalistic, but under particular circumstances they may provide their hosts with some essential organic nutrients. Some are known to produce cysts in the ovaries of adult females hosts which, in addition to sterilizing the host, serve as a mechanism of dispersal.

Organization:

University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Web site:

http://www.nhm.ku.edu/~fungi/