Ichthyochytrium is a fungal genus in the Chytridiales of uncertain familial placement.
A monotypic genus,[1] it contains the single rare species Ichthyochytrium vulgare, described from Germany by Marianne Plehn in 1920.
[2] A parasite of freshwater fishes, it forms spherical bodies measuring 5–20 μm that have refractive granules.
It typically attacks the lung and gills.
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