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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
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Batrachochytrium
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
, ( ) also known as
Bd
or the
amphibian chytrid fungus
, is a
chytrid fungus
that causes the disease
chytridiomycosis
in
amphibians
. In the decade after it was first discovered in 1998, the disease
devastated amphibian populations
around the world, in a global decline towards multiple extinctions, part of the
Holocene extinction
. A recently described second species,
B. salamandrivorans
, also cause chytridiomycosis and death in
salamanders
.
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