| Full name: |
Trichomycetes |
| Short name: |
Trichomycetes |
| Version: |
Jan 2016 |
| Release date: |
2016-01-22 |
| Authors/editors: |
Lichtwardt R.W. |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Protozoa - Choanozoa (pro parte)
Fungi - Zygomycota - Not assigned - Asellariales, Harpellales |
| English name of the group: |
Fungi associated with Arthropods |
|
Number of living species |
385 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
0 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
86 |
| Number of common names: |
0 |
| Total number of names: |
471 |
| 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 |
| Website: |
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/~fungi/
|
| Bibliographic citation: |
Lichtwardt R.W. (2017). Trichomycetes (version Jan 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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