Hydropus Kühner ex Singer
(a genus of toadstools)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Hydropus floccipes a toadstool					Species		41 images	2 ident. refs
Hydropus trichoderma a toadstool					Species			1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Hydropus (a genus of toadstools)
Family	MARASMIACEAE (a family of toadstools)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
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)

Hydropus is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Bas, C.		Hydropus (Kühner) ex Sing. in Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts Letters 32: 127. ("1946") 1948	Noordeloos, M.E. Strophariaceae Sing. & Smith, 81pp, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 4
	Watling, R. & Turnbull, E.	1998	Cantharellaceae, Gomphaceae & Amyloid-Spored and Xeruloid Members of Trichlomataceae (excl. Mycena)	British Fungus Flora, Vol 8, 189pp, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

Hydropus (a genus of toadstools) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

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

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Hydropus (a genus of toadstools)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 7 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Hydropus (a genus of toadstools)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Hydropus is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)