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Ascobolus spp. growing on cow dung | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Pezizomycetes |
Order: | Pezizales |
Family: | Ascobolaceae Boud.exSacc. (1984) |
Type genus | |
Ascobolus Pers. (1972) | |
Genera | |
Ascobolus |
The Ascobolaceae are a familyoffungi in the order Pezizales. A 2008 estimate places 6 genera and 129 species in the family.[1]
Most fruiting bodies of the disk-like ascobolaceae examined, are round and without conidium. All members of this family of fungi have a saprobiontic lifestyle, feeding on decaying and dead matter.[2]
Ascobolus michaudii and Ascobolus albidus live as decomposers on the feces of large herbivore and omnivore mammals and depend on their survival, due to the specialized habitat they inhabit.[4]
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