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Mucoraceae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY

Classification

kingdom
Fungi
phylum
Mucoromycota
class
Mucoromycetes
order
Mucorales
family
Mucoraceae

Name

Synonyms
Chaetocladiaceae
Thamnidiaceae
Homonyms
Mucoraceae
Common names
Kolcogłówkowate in Polish
Mugfamilien in Danish
Mugfamilien in Danish
Pleśniakowate in Polish
moisissures blanches in French
plísňovité in Czech
Мукоровые in Russian
ケカビ科 in Japanese
コウガイケカビ科 in Japanese
毛霉科 in Chinese
毛黴科 in Chinese

Bibliographic References

  1. Benny, Humber & Voigt (2014) Zygomycetous Fungi: Phylum Entomophthoromycota and Subphyla Kickxellomycotina, Mortierellomycotina, Mucoromycotina, and Zoopagomycotina
  2. Catalogue of Life (2008) Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist
  3. Clipson, N.; Landy, E.; Otte, M. (2001). Fungi, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 15-19
  4. Doweld (2023) (2954) Proposal to change the authorship and place of publication of Mucor, nom. cons. (Mucoromycota, Fungi)
  5. Fries (1821) Systema mycologicum
  6. Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Marine & Estuarine Fungi (Eumycota) Check-list (including Scandinavian maritime Lichens & a small appended list of Scandinavian maritime Bryophyta (Comp.). <em>Internet Ed.</em>
  7. Hoffmann, Pawłowska, Walther, Wrzosek, de Hoog, Benny, Kirk & Voigt (2013) The family structure of the Mucorales: a synoptic revision based on comprehensive multigene-genealogies.
  8. Index Fungorum (2018) Index fungorum
  9. Index fungorum
  10. Manawasinghe, Hyde, Wanasinghe, Karunarathna, Maharachchikumbura, Samarakoon, Voglmayr, Pang, Chiang, Jones, Saxena, Kumar, Rajeshkumar, Selbmann, Coleine, Hu, Ainsworth, Liimatainen, Niskanen, Ralaiveloarisoa, Arumugam, Kezo, Kaliyaperumal, Gunaseelan, Dissanayake, Khalid, Gajanayake, Flakus, Armand, Aptroot, Rodrigues, Tsurykau, López-Villalba, de Farias, Sánchez, Góes-Neto, Goto, de Souza, Chuaseeharonnachai, Lin, Li, Denchev, Guerra-Mateo, Tennakoon, Wei, Begerow, Alves, Drechsler-Santos, Sousa, de Medeiros, Langer, Zhang, de Souza, Magurno, Barreto, Moreno, Mane, Alves-Silva, da Silva, Xia, Shen, Gui, Senanayake, Luangsa-ard, Liu, Liu, Ma, Lin, Beserra Jr, Cano-Lira, Gené, Harikrishnan, Lu, dos Santos, Xu, Lacerda, Gusmão, Cáceres, Câmara, de Barros-Barreto, Calabon, Kukwa, Kemler, de Melo, Ghobad-Nejhad, Luo, Ding, Doilom, Phonemany, Usman, Thongklang, Boonyuen, Ashtekar, Kularathnage, Sruthi, Kwantong, Ansil, Kooij, Zhao & Alfenas (2024) Fungal diversity notes 1818–1918: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungi
  11. MycoBank (2018) MycoBank, an online database of fungal names
  12. Robert, Stegehuis & Stalpers (2024) The MycoBank engine and related databases
  13. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew represented by the Mycology Section & al. (2024) Index Fungorum
  14. Wijayawardene & al. (2025) Outline of Fungi
  15. Wijayawardene (2024) Outline of Fungi
  16. Wijayawardene (2024) Outline of Fungi
  17. Wijayawardene, Pawłowska, Letcher, Kirk, Humber, Schüßler, Wrzosek, Muszewska, Okrasińska, Istel, Gęsiorska, Lateef, Mungai, Rajeshkumar, Singh, Radek, Walther, Wagner, Walker, Wijesundara, Papizadeh, Dolatabadi, Shenoy, Tokarev, Lumyong & Hyde (2018) Notes for genera: basal clades of Fungi (including Aphelidiomycota, Basidiobolomycota, Blastocladiomycota, Calcarisporiellomycota, Caulochytriomycota, Chytridiomycota, Entomophthoromycota, Glomeromycota, Kickxellomycota, Monoblepharomycota, Mortierellomycota, Mucoromycota, Neocallimastigomycota, Olpidiomycota, Rozellomycota and Zoopagomycota)
  18. Zhao, Nie, Zong, Wang, Lv, Cui, Tohtirjap, Chen, Zhao, Wu, Cui, Yuan, Dai & Liu (2023) Species diversity, updated classification and divergence times of the phylum Mucoromycota
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