摘要：Dictyostelid cellular slime moulds (dictyostelids) are an understudied group in Africa, but several recent surveys carried out in the context of a Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project funded by the National Science Foundation of the United States have added a considerable number of new records from several areas of the continent. Since Edgar Olive isolated Polysphondylium pallidum from a sample of dung collected in Liberia at some point during the period between 1897 and 1900, at least 25 species of dictyostelids have been documented for continental Africa and about the same number for the island of Madagascar. These totals include an appreciable number of forms that appear to be new to science. Most of what is now known about the dictyostelids of continental Africa has been derived from study sites in East Africa and South Africa. Only limited data exist for West Africa and Central Africa, and we are aware of records of only two species of dictyostelids from all of North Africa
关键词：Dictyostelium – distribution – Madagascar – Polysphondylium
