WoRMS name details
Ichthyophonus hoferi Plehn & Mulsow, 1911
1476517 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1476517)
uncertain > unassessed
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Taxonomic remark The generic name in this combination is not considered to apply to an organism within the fungal clade.
Taxonomic remark Ichthyophonus sp. is a pathogen of fresh and saltwater fishes with a worldwide distribution (reviewed in Mc Vicar, 2011)....
Taxonomic remark The generic name in this combination is not considered to apply to an organism within the fungal clade. [details]
Taxonomic remark Ichthyophonus sp. is a pathogen of fresh and saltwater fishes with a worldwide distribution (reviewed in Mc Vicar, 2011)....
Taxonomic remark Ichthyophonus sp. is a pathogen of fresh and saltwater fishes with a worldwide distribution (reviewed in Mc Vicar, 2011). The organism was first described by Hofer (1893) and subsequently classified as a protozoan, Ichthyosporidium hoferi (Caullery and Mesnil, 1905). Several years later it was reclassified as a fungus, Ichthyophonus hoferi (Plehn and Mulsow, 1911), where it remained until it was recently placed into the mesomycetozoa, a group of organisms near the animal-fungal boundary (Spanggaard et al., 1996; Mendoza et al., 2002; Ragan et al., 2003). Although the organism is often referred to as I. hoferi , the original species description was incomplete (McVicar, 2011), and no type specimen exists for comparison. Since no definitive criteria for assigning species within this genus are currently available, the generic term Ichthyophonus will be used hereafter. [details]
WoRMS (2024). Ichthyophonus hoferi Plehn & Mulsow, 1911. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1476517 on 2024-11-13
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taxonomy source
Kocan, R.M. (2013). Proposed Changes to the Nomenclature of Ichthyophonus sp. Life Stages and Structures. <em>The Journal of Parasitology.</em> 99(5): 906-909., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/41982113 [details] Available for editors 
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taxonomy source Sprague, V. (1965). Ichthyosporidium Caullery and Mesnil, 1905, the Name of a Genus of Fungi or a Genus of Sporozoans?. <em>Systematic Zoology.</em> 14(2): 110., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2411733 [details]
basis of record Index fungorum, available online at http://www.indexfungorum.org/ [details]
[request]taxonomy source Sprague, V. (1965). Ichthyosporidium Caullery and Mesnil, 1905, the Name of a Genus of Fungi or a Genus of Sporozoans?. <em>Systematic Zoology.</em> 14(2): 110., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2411733 [details]
basis of record Index fungorum, available online at http://www.indexfungorum.org/ [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomic remark The generic name in this combination is not considered to apply to an organism within the fungal clade. [details]Taxonomic remark Ichthyophonus sp. is a pathogen of fresh and saltwater fishes with a worldwide distribution (reviewed in Mc Vicar, 2011). The organism was first described by Hofer (1893) and subsequently classified as a protozoan, Ichthyosporidium hoferi (Caullery and Mesnil, 1905). Several years later it was reclassified as a fungus, Ichthyophonus hoferi (Plehn and Mulsow, 1911), where it remained until it was recently placed into the mesomycetozoa, a group of organisms near the animal-fungal boundary (Spanggaard et al., 1996; Mendoza et al., 2002; Ragan et al., 2003). Although the organism is often referred to as I. hoferi , the original species description was incomplete (McVicar, 2011), and no type specimen exists for comparison. Since no definitive criteria for assigning species within this genus are currently available, the generic term Ichthyophonus will be used hereafter. [details]
