Fungi
See also: fungi, fungí, and fungi-
Translingual
Etymology
Latin fungus (“mushroom”)
Proper noun
Fungi
- A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota – mushrooms and funguses, over 100,000 species of organisms that are similar to plants but do not contain chlorophyll.
Hyponyms
- (kingdom): Dikarya, Eomycota - subkingdoms[1]
- Ascomycota, Basidiomycota; Chytridiomycota, Glomeromycota, Zygomycota - phyla[1]
Coordinate terms
- (kingdoms): Animalia, Plantae, Protozoa, Chromista - kingdoms in Eukaryota[1]
References
- Fungi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Fungi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Fungi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Fungi at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Fungi at Encyclopedia of Life
- Fungi at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Fungi placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521