Acytostelium

Acytostelium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Amoebozoa
Infraphylum:	Mycetozoa
Class:	Dictyostelia
Order:	Dictyosteliida
Family:	Dictyosteliidae
Genus:	Acytostelium Raper 1956
Species
Several, see text

Acytostelium is a genus of dictyostelid. ^{[1] [2]}

The genus Acytostelium inhabit surface humus and leaf mold of forest soils and are widely distributed in different forests of the world. ^[3]

Species include: ^[4]

• Acytostelium aggregatum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium amazonicum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium anastomosans Cavender et al. 2005
• Acytostelium digitatum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium irregularosporum Hagiw. 1971
• Acytostelium leptosomum Raper 1956
• Acytostelium longisorophorum Cavender et al. 2005
• Acytostelium magniphorum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium magnisorum Cavender et al. 2005
• Acytostelium minutissimum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium pendulum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium reticulatum Cavender & Vadell 2000
• Acytostelium serpentarium Cavender et al. 2005
• Acytostelium singulare Cavender et al. 2005
• Acytostelium subglobosum Cavender 1976

References

1. "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" . Retrieved 2009-05-06.
2. Romeralo M, Escalante R, Sastre L, Lado C (January 2007). "Molecular systematics of dictyostelids: 5.8S ribosomal DNA and internal transcribed spacer region analyses". Eukaryotic Cell. 6 (1): 110–6. doi:10.1128/EC.00233-06. PMC   1800358 . PMID   17056743.
3. Cavender, James (September 2000). "The Genus Acytostelium". Mycologia. 92 (5): 992–1008. doi:10.2307/3761594. JSTOR   3761594.
4. Sheikh, Sanea; Thulin, Mats; Cavender, James C; Escalante, Ricardo; Kawakami, Shin-ichi; Lado, Carlos; Landolt, John; Nanjundiah, Vidyanand; Queller, David; Strassmann, Joan; Spiegel, Frederick W.; Stephenson, Steve; Vadell, Eduardo M; Baldauf, Sandra (2017-11-24). "A New Classification of the Dictyostelids" . Protists. 169 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2017.11.001. PMID   29367151.