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Amoebophilus

Amoebophilus
A freshwater amoeba crawling among debris on a microscope slide that is infected with a species of the fungus Amoebophilus. On the left, the amoeba has several pseudopodia extended. On the right, is a thallus of Amoebophilus that consists of four chains of spores laying in the same plane as the amoeba. The top chain points up and consists of three fully formed spores and one immature spore at the end furthest from the amoeba. The other three chains point toward the right and consist of two or three mature spores and one immature spore at the end of the chain.
Thallus of Amoebophilus sp. infecting an unidentified amoeba.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Zoopagomycota
Class: Zoopagomycetes
Order: Zoopagales
Family: Cochlonemataceae
Genus: Amoebophilus
Dangeard (1910)
Type species
Amoebophilus penardii
Dangeard (1910)[1]

Amoebophilus is a genus of zygomycete fungi that parasitizes amoeba.[2]

  1. ^ Dangeard, P.A. (1910). "Estudies sur les développement des organisms infereurs. I. Les Amibes". Le Botaniste. 11: 4–57.
  2. ^ Barron, G.L. (1983). "A new Amoebophilus (Zygomycetes) ectoparasitic on amoebae". Canadian Journal of Botany. 61: 3091–3094. doi:10.1139/b83-347.

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