Dictyostelium
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin. Coined by German botanist and mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1869 from Ancient Greek δίκτυον (díktuon, “fishing net”) + Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “pillar, column”) + -ium, referring to how the cells of its sorocarps' stalks visually resemble nets.[1] See stele.
Proper noun
Dictyostelium n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Dictyosteliidae – protozoan bacteriophages known as slime molds, once thought to be fungi.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Sarcomastigota - subkingdom; Amoebozoa - phylum; Conosa - subphylum; Dictyostelea - class; Dictyosteliida - order; Dictyosteliidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Dictyostelium mucoroides - type species; see
Dictyostelium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for selected species.
References
- Dictyostelium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dictyosteliidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Dictyostelium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Dictyostelium at World Register of Marine Species
- Dictyostelium at Encyclopedia of Life
- Dictyostelium at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Sanea Sheikh with Mats Thulin, James C. Cavender, Ricardo Escalante, Shin-ichi Kawakami, Carlos Lado, John C. Landolt, Vidyanand Nanjundiah, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, Frederick W. Spiegel, Steven L. Stephenson, Eduardo M. Vadell, and Sandra L. Baldauf (2018 February) “A New Classification of the Dictyostelids”, in Protist, volume 169, number 1, , →PMID, pages 1–28
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