cavosteliid

English

Fruiting body of a cavosteliid, Cavostelium apophysatum, bottom right

Etymology

From translingual Cavosteliidae (family name).

Noun

cavosteliid (plural cavosteliids)

1. Any slime mold of the family Cavosteliidae.
   • 2017, Dmitry V. Leontyev, Martin Schnittler, Chapter 3: The Phylogeny of Myxomycetes, Carlos Rojas, Steven L. Stephenson, Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography and Ecology, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 95,

     Only five of these eight lineages belong to the Eumycetozoa. These are the protosporangiids, protosteliids, soliformoviids, cavosteliids, and schizoplasmodiids (Shadwick et al., 2009).

Usage notes

• The (translingual) family name differs depending on whether one wishes to treat its members as animals (in which case the -idae suffix is used) or something else (when -aceae is used). Thus, and in reflection of the difficulty classifying the family, it is sometimes called Cavosteliaceae.

See also

• eukaryote
• protist
• protostelid

Further reading

• Protosteliales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cavosteliidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cavosteliaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Slime mold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Protista taxonomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia