Brefeldia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Phylum
- Mycetozoa
- Class
- Myxomycetes
- Order
- Stemonitidales
- Family
- Amaurochaetaceae
- Genus
- Brefeldia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Brefeldia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Brefeldia
Brefeldia is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae.
The genus name of Brefeldia is in honour of Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839 – 1925), a German botanist and mycologist.
The genus was circumscribed by Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky in 1873 and appears to be monotypic, containing the species Brefeldia maxima.
...Brefeldia in languages:
- Czech
- brefeldka
- Dutch
- Reuzenkussen
- Finnish
- rakkoset
- Lithuanian
- Brefeldija
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