Stemonitopsis

Stemonitopsis is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae.^[1] First circumscribed by Dutch botanist Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp in 1967 as a subgenus of Comatricha,^[2] she later elevated the grouping to generic status in 1975.^[3] The type species is Stemonitopsis hyperopta, which was originally described by Charles Meylan in 1919 as Stemonitis hyperopta.^[4]

Stemonitopsis
Stemonitopsis typhina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Stemonitidales
Family:	Amaurochaetaceae
Genus:	Stemonitopsis (Nann.-Bremek.) Nann.-Bremek., 1975
Type species
Stemonitopsis hyperopta (Meyl.) Nann.-Bremek., 1975
Synonyms
Comatricha subgen. Stemonitopsis Nann.-Bremek., 1967

Species

As of June 2016^[update], there are 10 species in the genus.^[5]

• Stemonitopsis aequalis
• Stemonitopsis amoena
• Stemonitopsis curiosa
• Stemonitopsis gracilis
• Stemonitopsis hyperopta
• Stemonitopsis microspora
• Stemonitopsis peritricha
• Stemonitopsis reticulata
• Stemonitopsis subcaespitosa
• Stemonitopsis typhina