10.6084/m9.figshare.7452161.v1 José de Ribamar de Sousa Rocha José de Ribamar de Sousa Rocha Joseane Lustosa Machado Joseane Lustosa Machado Janete Barros da Silva Janete Barros da Silva Osiel César da Trindade Júnior Osiel César da Trindade Júnior Leilane de Abreu Santos Leilane de Abreu Santos Edilson Páscoa Rodrigues Edilson Páscoa Rodrigues Áurea Aguiar Cronemberger Áurea Aguiar Cronemberger The genus Olpidiopsis (Oomycota) in northeastern Brazil SciELO journals 2018 biodiversity geographic distribution heterotrophic zoosporic organisms parasites 2018-12-12 02:58:51 Dataset https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_genus_Olpidiopsis_Oomycota_in_northeastern_Brazil/7452161 <p></p><p>Abstract Studies on the diversity of oomycetes were carried out from 1998 to 2016, in the states of Bahia, Maranhão and Piauí, and biotrophic holocarpic zoosporic parasites of chitrids, glomeromycetes and oomycetes were identified as Olpidiopsis achlyae, O. aphanomycis, O. fusiformis, O. karlingae, Olpidiopsis sp1 and Olpidiopsis sp2. The occurrence of O. karlingae is a new report for South America, and O. aphanomycis, for Brazil. The taxa found were described, illustrated, and commented. The diversity of terms of the specialized literature for identification of morphological structures of Olpidiopsis was standardized. Are proposed synonyms of O. braziliensis (= Pseudolpidium achlyae) with O. fusiformis and Cornumyces karlingae with O. karlingae.</p><p></p>