Tomophagus[1] is a Basidiomycete bracket-fungus genus in the family Ganodermataceae. The type species Tomophagus colossus, from the tropical Americas and Africa, has now been placed in the genus Ganoderma.
| Tomophagus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Subclass: | incertae sedis |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Ganodermataceae |
| Genus: | Tomophagus Murrill, 1905 |
| Species: | T. cattienensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tomophagus cattienensis | |
According to the Index Fungorum the remaining (monotypic) species is Tomophagus cattienensis.[2][3] The holotype of this was collected on tropical hardwood in Cát Tiên National Park, Vietnam, after-which it was named by its finders Ngoc Duong Pham and Le Xuan Tham; its placement was based on morphological evidence and ITS DNA barcoding.
References edit
- ^ Murrill WA (1905). Tomophagus for Dendrophagus. Torreya 5: 197
- ^ Le Xuan Tham, Quoc Hung Nguyen Le, Ngoc Duong Pham, Van Hop Duong, Dentinger BTM, Moncalvo JM (2012) Tomophagus cattienensis sp. nov., a new Ganodermataceae species from Vietnam: Evidence from morphology and ITS DNA barcodes. Mycological Progress 11(3): 777
- ^ Species Fungorum (retrieved 5 July 2018)
External links edit
Media related to Ganodermataceae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Ganodermataceae at Wikispecies
