Macbrideola is a genus of Amoebozoa in the family Stemonitidaceae.[1] As of 2015, there are 17 species in the genus.[2]

Macbrideola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Myxogastria
Order: Stemonitidales
Family: Stemonitidaceae
Genus: Macbrideola
H.C.Gilbert, 1934
Type species
Macbrideola scintillans
H.C.Gilbert, 1934

The genus name of Macbrideola is in honour of Thomas Huston Macbride (1848–1934), who was the tenth president of the University of Iowa and was a naturalist and botanist.[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Henry Clark Gilbert in University of Iowa Studies in Natural History vol.16 on page 155 in 1934.

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References

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  1. ^ Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN 1179-3163. S2CID 108783142.
  2. ^ Lado, C.; Hernández-Crespo, J.C. "Nomen.eumycetozoa.com (version 23rd June 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved 27 January 2022.