Phylum:Chytridiomycota >> Class: Chytridiomycetes >> Order: Chytridiales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Diplochytridium lagenarium | |||
Author: | ? Chytridium lagenaria Schenk, pro parte, Ueber das Vorkommen constractiler Zellen im Pflanzenreiche,p.5, Wurzburg, 1858. Diplochytridium lagenarium Karling, Arch. Mikrobiol., 76:126-131. 1971. |
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Description: | In 1/4YpSs slush: Sporangium spherical or subspherical, variable in size, 15 × 17.5-62.5 × 70μm diam., with a spherical, flattened, fusiform, or broad tubular, 10-20 μm diam., apophysis. Rhizoids much branched, arising from a single axis at the base of apophysis. Zoospores spherical, 5-6.5 μm diam., emerging through a large, 17.5-27.5 μm diam., apical pore formed upon the dehiscence of a convex smooth operculum and collecting at the orifice in a temporarily motionless mass, movement swimming or amoeboid.On 1/4YpSs agar: Color of colony was white. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan. Kaohsiung: Meinung, creak water, 23 Apr 1998, CHNA 3601a.Isolated with pine pollen from water. |
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Habitat: | Fresh water. | |||
Distribution: | Germany, France, Rumania, Great Britain, USA, Hungary, Cuba, Japan, Taiwan. |
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References: | Chen, SF. 2002; Karling, JS. 1936; Whiffen, AJ. 1944. |
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Provided: | S. F. Chen |
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Note: | The endo-exogenous type of development described by Karling (1936), and regarded by Whiffen (1944) as a modification of Chytrium type. The greatly inflated apophysis is a conspicious character. | |||