Gomphus Pers.
(pig’s ears)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Gomphus clavatus Pig’s Ear					Species			2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Gomphus (pig’s ears)
Family	GOMPHACEAE (a family of coral fungi, false truffles and fairy clubs)
Order	GOMPHALES (an order of coral, tooth and club fungi)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Gomphus is also a member of:
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Gomphus (pig’s ears) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

GOMPHACEAE
(a family of coral fungi, false truffles and fairy clubs)

GOMPHALES
(an order of coral, tooth and club fungi)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Gomphus (pig’s ears)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Gomphus (pig’s ears)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Gomphus is also a member of:

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