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Modicella

genus of fungi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ6889343 ↗
Source-derived summary

Modicella is a genus of fungi in the family Mortierellaceae of the Mucoromycota. It was formerly in the division Zygomycota. The genus contains two species found in North and South America and one in New Zealand.

References

External links

Modicella in Index Fungorum.

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“Modicella” enters the record as genus of fungi. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Modicella, genus and fungi can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Modicella, genus and fungi.
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“Modicella” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Modicella, genus and fungi provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6889343.

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This entry incorporates text from “Modicella” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.