Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

Translingual

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

Proper noun

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans n

1. A taxonomic species within the order Rhizophydiales – a fungus that infects salamanders and newts to cause chytridiomycosis, an acute disease that turns them into little masses of slime in three or four days.

Coordinate terms

• (species): Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Further reading

• Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chytridiales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Batrachochytrium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons