Ichthyosporidium Caullery and Mesnil, 1905, the Name of a Genus of Fungi or a Genus of Sporozoans?

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The generic name Ichthyosporidium Caullery and Mesnil, 1905, was created for two original species. One of them was probably a fungus and the other a protozoan, but neither was ever designated as type-species. In subsequent studies this name has been applied by some authors to organisms known to be fungi and by other authors to quite different organisms which are generally conceded to be protozoans. In this study the protozoan originally included in the genus, 7. phymogenes, later corrected to I. giganteum (Thelohan, 1895) Swarczewsky, 1914, is selected as type-species and the generic name is thereby reserved for the protozoans. The other original species, I. gasterophUum C. and M., 1905, is transferred to genus Ichthyophonus Plehn and Mulsow, 1911.

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