Stemonitopsis

Stemonitopsis is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae.[1] First circumscribed by Norwegian 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
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, 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

References

1. Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN 1179-3163.
2. Nannenga-Bremekamp, N.E. (1967). "Notes on Myxomycetes XII. A revision of the Stemonitales". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 70: 201–216.
3. Nannenga-Bremekamp, N.E. (1974). "De Nederlandse Myxomyceten" (in Norwegian). Zutphen: 203. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. Meylan, C. (1918). "Myxomycètes nouveaux". Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 52: 95–97.
5. Lado, C; Hernández-Crespo, J.C. "Nomen.eumycetozoa.com (version 23rd June 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 30 June 2015.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)