| Full name: |
Zygomycetes |
| Short name: |
Zygomycetes |
| Version: |
Jan 2016 |
| Release date: |
2016-01-22 |
| Authors/editors: |
Kirk P.M. |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Fungi - Zygomycota (pro parte) |
| English name of the group: |
Pin moulds and related fungi |
|
Number of living species |
1,047 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
0 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
1,370 |
| Number of common names: |
0 |
| Total number of names: |
2,417 |
| Abstract: |
The Mucorales, Zoopagales, Dimargaritales and Kickxellales are characterised by a wide range of life strategies for such a relatively small number of phylogenetically related species. Whilst most are saprobic (in soil) others are pathogenic on plants, animals (including man) and other fungi, either facultatively and unspecialized or highly host specific. They are mainly mesophiles but some are psychrophiles and others thermophiles; most are temperate but some only have a tropical distribution and a number of species are very widely distributed, having been recorded from the Antarctic, high northern latitudes and both east and west in temperate and tropical zones. |
| Organization: |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK |
| Website: |
http://www.speciesfungorum.org
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| Bibliographic citation: |
Kirk P.M. (2017). Zygomycetes (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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