Calospeira

Calospeira
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Class:
Plasmodiophoromycetes
Order:
incertae sedis
Family:
Heimerliaceae
Genus:
Calospeira

G. Arnaud 1949
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Calospeira elegans

Calospeira is a genus of slime mold containing the sole species Calospeira elegans.

Description

Calospeira is a genus of slime molds, eukaryotic microbes capable of forming fruiting bodies called sorocarps. Its sorocarps are 730–1200 μm long, formed by a pedicel (stalk) supporting a sporangium. The pedicel is uniquely twisted below the sporangium, as opposed to similar genera that have a straight pedicel, such as Heimerlia and Heliomycopsis. The sporangia have columella and are 100—150 μm in diameter. The spores are ellipsoidal in shape, between 3.0 and 3.5 μm long.: 453 

Taxonomy

The genus Calospeira and its type and only species Calospeira elegans were described in 1949 by mycologist Gabriel Arnaud. According to article 36.1 of the botanical code of nomenclature at the time, its name is taxonomically invalid due to lacking a Latin diagnosis. Since its description, it has not been reported by newer works. It was last mentioned in Michael W. Dick's 2001 work Straminipilous fungi, as part of the family Heimerliaceae, together with Heimerlia and other nomenclaturally invalid genera Rhabdocystis, Pygomyces, Heliomycopsis and Enigma. This family in turn was "provisionally placed in the Plasmodiophoromycetes".: 274 

References

  1. 1 2 Arnaud, G. (1949). "Les Heimerliacees, subdivision des Acrasiales?". Le Botaniste. 34: 35–55.
  2. 1 2 Dick, Michael W. (2001). Straminipilous Fungi: Systematics of the Peronosporomycetes Including Accounts of the Marine Straminipilous Protists, the Plasmodiophorids and Similar Organisms (1 ed.). Springer Dordrecht. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9733-3. ISBN 978-94-015-9733-3. S2CID 28755980.