''Brefeldia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
slime mold
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are near-microscopic; those in the Myxogastria ...
s in the family
Amaurochaetaceae
Amaurochaetaceae is a family of slime molds in the order Stemonitidales.
Genera
*''Amaurochaete''
*'' Brefeldia''
*''Comatricha''
*'' Enerthenema''
*''Stemonaria''
*''Stemonitopsis
''Stemonitopsis'' is a genus of slime molds in the family ...
.
The genus name of ''Brefeldia'' is in honour of
Julius Oscar Brefeld
Julius Oscar Brefeld (19 August 1839 – 12 January 1925), usually just Oscar Brefeld, was a German botanist and mycologist.
Biography
Brefeld was a native of Telgte. He studied pharmacy in Heidelberg and Berlin, and afterwards served as an assi ...
(1839 – 1925), a German botanist and mycologist.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky in 1873 and appears to be
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
, containing the species ''
Brefeldia maxima
''Brefeldia maxima'' is a species of non-parasitic plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the class Myxogastria, Myxomycetes. It is common name, commonly known as the tapioca slime mold because of its peculiar pure white, tapioca pudding-like app ...
''.
[Rostafínsky JT (1873) ''Versuch Syst. Mycetozoen (Strassburg)'': 8, p. 20.]
References
External links
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Myxogastria
Myxogastria genera
Monotypic eukaryote genera