The Chaetosphaeriaceae are a
family
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of
fungi
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in the
Ascomycota
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...
, class
Sordariomycetes
Sordariomycetes is a class of fungi in the subdivision Pezizomycotina (Ascomycota), consisting of 28 orders, 90 families, 1344 genera. Sordariomycetes is from the Latin sordes (filth) because some species grow in animal feces, though growth habit ...
. The family was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by Martina Réblová, Margaret Elizabeth Barr Bigelow, and Gary Samuels in 1999. Species in the family have a
cosmopolitan distribution
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, and are found in both
temperate
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and
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
climates. Fossils of the Chaetosphaeriaceae are known from the
Carboniferous
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,
Eocene
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,
Oligocene
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,
Miocene
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and more recent sediments.
Genera
As accepted by
GBIF
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;
* ''
Adautomilanezia'' (2)
* ''
Anaexserticlava'' (1)
* ''
Aposphaeriella'' (1)
* ''
Ascochalara'' (1)
* ''
Calvolachnella'' (2)
* ''
Catenularia'' (16)
* ''
Chaetolentomita'' (1)
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Chaetosphaeria'' (184)
* ''
Chloridium'' (45)
* ''
Cirrhomyces'' (1)
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Codinaea'' (21)
* ''
Conicomyces'' (5)
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Craspedodidymum'' (14)
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Cylindrotrichum'' (28)
* ''
Dendrophoma'' (9)
* ''
Dictyochaeta'' (87)
* ''
Dictyochaetopsis'' (13)
* ''
Didymopsamma'' (1)
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Eucalyptostroma'' (4)
* ''
Fuscocatenula'' (2)
* ''
Gonytrichum'' (4)
* ''
Hemicorynespora'' (13)
* ''
Infundibulomyces'' (6)
* ''
Kylindria'' (13)
* ''
Lecythothecium'' (1)
* ''
Lentomita'' (11)
* ''
Melanochaeta'' (4)
* ''
Melanopsammina'' (1)
* ''
Menispora'' (24)
* ''
Menisporopascus'' (1)
* ''
Menisporopsis'' (14)
* ''
Mesobotrys'' (1)
* ''
Miyoshiella'' (2)
* ''
Montemartinia'' (1)
* ''
Morrisiella'' (1)
* ''
Nawawia'' (8)
* ''
Neopseudolachnella'' (5)
* ''
Paliphora'' (8)
* ''
Paragaeumannomyces'' (14)
* ''
Phaeostalagmus'' (8)
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Phialogeniculata'' (4)
* ''
Phialolunulospora'' (1)
* ''
Pseudodinemasporium'' (2)
* ''
Pseudolachnea'' (8)
* ''
Pseudolachnella'' (26)
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Pyrigemmula'' (4)
* ''
Sporoschisma'' (28)
* ''
Stanjehughesia'' (17)
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Striatosphaeria'' (3)
* ''
Tainosphaeria'' (9)
* ''
Thozetella
''Thozetella'' is a genus of fungi in the family Chaetosphaeriaceae. This has been confirmed with analyse of 3 genes (ribosomal DNA and protein coding genes: RNA polymerase II largest subunit (RBP2) and b-tubulin) and morphological comparison.
Ty ...
'' (40)
* ''
Thozetellopsis'' (1)
* ''
Trichocollonema'' (1)
* ''
Uncigera'' (1)
* ''
Verhulstia'' (1)
* ''
Zanclospora'' (11)
* ''
Zignoella'' (79)
Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.
[
Former genera '' Australiasca'' now within '' Australiascaceae'' family and '' Porosphaerella'' now within '' Cordanaceae'' family.
]
References
Chaetosphaeriales
Ascomycota families
Taxa described in 1999
Taxa named by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow
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