Polysphondylium

Polysphondylium is a genus of cellular slime mold, including the species Polysphondylium pallidum.^[1][2] The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1884.^[3]

Polysphondylium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Dictyostelia
Order:	Dictyosteliida
Family:	Dictyosteliidae
Genus:	Polysphondylium Bref. (1884)
Type species
Polysphondylium violaceum Bref. (1885)

Species

• Polysphondylium acuminatum Vadell & Cavender 1998 nom. inv.
• Polysphondylium aureum Hodgson & Wheller 2001 nom. inv.
• Polysphondylium fuscans Perrigo & Romeralo 2012
• Polysphondylium laterosorum (Cavender 1970) Baldauf, Sheikh & Thulin 2017
• Polysphondylium patagonicum Vadell et al. 2011
• Polysphondylium violaceum Brefeld 1885

See also

• Dictyostelium so-called cellular slime mold.