''Gymnopaxillus'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the family
Serpulaceae
The Serpulaceae are a family of fungi in the Boletales order. According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (10th edition, 2008), the family contains 4 genera and 20 species. However, a molecular phylogenetics study showed that the genus '' Neopax ...
. According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (10th edition, 2008), the family contains four
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
found in
temperate
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South America and Australia.
''Gymnopaxillus'' 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 mycologist
Egon Horak
Egon Horak (born Innsbruck in 1937) is an Austrian mycologist who has described more than 1000 species of fungi, including many from the Southern Hemisphere, particularly New Zealand and South America. He was an executive editor of the scientific ...
in 1966 with ''
G. morchelliformis'' as the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
.
''
G. crubensis'', described from Argentina, was added in 1989,
while the Australasian species ''
G. nudus'' and
''
G. vestitus'' were added to the genus in 2001.
References
External links
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Boletales
Boletales genera
Taxa named by Egon Horak
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