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Echinostelium
Echinostelium minutum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Echinosteliales
Family:	Echinosteliaceae
Genus:	Echinostelium De Bary, 1855
Type species
Echinostelium minutum De Bary, 1855

Echinostelium is a genus of slime mould, and the only genus in the monotypic family Echinosteliaceae, or Echinosteliidae. It was discovered by Heinrich Anton de Bary in 1855, apparently near Frankfurt am Main. Some species of Echinostelium have a sexual life cycle; others have been shown to be asexual. The plasmodium can divide vegetatively, in a process called plasmotomy, to distinguish it from true cell division.

Species

The genus Echinostelium comprises at least five species:

• Echinostelium apitectum K. D. Whitney, 1980
• Echinostelium colliculosum K. D. Whitney & H. W. Keller, 1980
• Echinostelium corynophorum K. D. Whitney, 1980
• Echinostelium fragile Nannenga-Bremekamp, 1961
• Echinostelium minutum De Bary in Rostafinsky, 1874

References

1. Constantine J. Alexopoulos & T. E. Brooks (1971). "Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. III. Clastodermataceae: a new family of the Echinosteliales". Mycologia. 63 (4): 925–928. doi:10.2307/3758063. JSTOR 3758063.
2. Lynn Margulis; Michael J. Chapman (2009). "Pr-23 Myxomycota". Kingdoms and Domains: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth (4th ed.). Elsevier. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0-7167-3027-9.
3. Constantine J. Alexopoulos (1960). "Morphology and laboratory cultivation of Echinostelium minutum". American Journal of Botany. 47 (1): 37–43. doi:10.2307/2439491. JSTOR 2439491.
4. Clark, J.; Haskins, E.F. (2010). "Reproductive systems in the myxomycetes: a review" (PDF). Mycosphere. 1 (4): 337–353.
5. Helmut W. Sauer (1982). "Lives of a true slime mould". Developmental biology of Physarum. Volume 11 of Developmental and cell biology series. Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–35. ISBN 978-0-521-22703-2.
6. T. W. May (2003). "Echinosteliales". Basidiomycota p.p. & Myxomycota p.p. Volume 2 of Catalogue and bibliography of Australian macrofungi. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-643-06907-7.

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