Lichtheimia corymbifera

Lichtheimia corymbifera
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Mucoromycota
Class: Mucoromycetes
Order: Mucorales
Family: Lichtheimiaceae
Genus: Lichtheimia
Species:
L. corymbifera
Binomial name
Lichtheimia corymbifera
(Cohn) Vuill. (1903)
Synonyms

≡Mucor corymbifer Cohn ex. Lichtheim (1884)
≡Absidia corymbifera (Cohn) Sacc. & Trotter
≡Mycocladus corymbifer (Cohn) Vánová (1991)
=L. hyalospora K. Hoffmann, G.Walther & K.Voigt (2009)
=L. sphaerocystis A. Alastruey-Izquierdo & G.Walther(2010)
=L. hongkongensis K.Y. Yuen (2010)

Lichtheimia corymbifera is a thermophilic fungus in the phylum Zygomycota. It normally lives as a saprotrophic mold, but can also be an opportunistic pathogen known to cause pulmonary, CNS, rhinocerebral, or cutaneous infections in animals and humans with impaired immunity.

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