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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Taxonomic Hierarchy
  2. Fungi (Kingdom)
  3. Microsporidia

Preferred term

Microsporidia

Type

  • Organism

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • Microspora (Protozoa)
  • Microsporida
  • microsporidians

Source

  • Rank of Phylum in the Kingdom Protozoa, according to Ruggiero, et. al. "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms".PLoS One, 10 (2015). Previously, the microsporidians were considered as Protozoa then moved to Kingdom Fungi (Hibbett et. al. and Ruggiero et. al.). Now considered as Protozoa.

Has taxonomic rank

In other languages

  • Microsporidia

    Spanish

  • Microspora (Protozoa)
  • Microsporida
  • microsporidians

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/7447

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