Mucor harpali Hyang B. Lee, P.M. Kirk & T.T.T. Nguyen sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 557325; MycoBank number: MB 557325; Facesoffungi number: FoF 09209; Fig. 1 Etymology – Referring to the name of a bombardier beetle, Harpalus sp. Holotype – CNUFC HT18012 Colonies on MEA at 25 °C in darkness moderate reddish-brown (8.1R/3.1), the central part with [...]
Mortierella solitaria Telagathoti, M. Probst & Peintner sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 557446; MycoBank number: MB 557446; Facesoffungi number: FoF 09208; Figs. 1, 2, 3 Etymology – Latin solitaria means solitary, living / acting on its own. This refers to i) the unbranched sporangiophores, which usually appear solitary or in small groups on the [...]
Umbelopsis heterosporus C.A. de Souza, D.X. Lima & A.L. Santiago, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 556384; MycoBank number: MB 556384; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06082; Fig. 1 Etymology – Referring to the variation in the shape and size of the sporangiospores. Holotype – URM 7882. Colonies velvet, zoned, first pinkish then turning pale brownish, presenting cytoplasmic [...]
Rhizopus koreanus Hyang B. Lee & T.T.T. Nguyen, sp. nov. MycoBank number: MB 814406, Facesoffungi number: FoF 02067, Fig. 3 Etymology – koreanus. Referring to the country which from the species was first isolated (Korea). Holotype – EML-HO95-1, deposited at the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Fungarium, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, as dried fungal mass [...]
Rhizopus Ehrenb. The classification system in the genus Rhizopus was previously revised based on physiological and morphological characteristics such as size of sporangia and sporangiophore and branching of rhizoids (Schipper 1984; Schipper and Stalpers 1984). Recently, however, molecular identification has been employed by analyses of rDNA ITS, small subunit (SSU), large subunit (LSU), actin [...]
Mucor merdicola C.A. de Souza & A.L. Santiago, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 551679, Facesoffungi number: FoF 01327, Fig. 1 Etymology – merdicola. Merda-dung, cola-dwelling. Holotype – URM 7223 Colony initially white then becoming yellowish to cream (MP 19D1) with yellowish reverse (MP 11 J6), reaching 9.5 cm in diam. and 9 mm [...]
Mucor koreanus Hyang B. Lee, S.J. Jeon & T.T.T. Nguyen, sp. nov. MycoBank number: MB 814424, Facesoffungi number: FoF 02066, Fig. 3 Etymology – koreanus. Referring to the country which from the species was first isolated (Korea). Holotype – EML-QT1, deposited at the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Fungarium, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea. Living culture [...]
Mucor caatinguensis A.L. Santiago, C.A. de Souza & D.X. Lima, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 551680, Facesoffungi number: FoF 01328, Fig. 1 Etymology – caatinguensis. Referring to the biome where the species was first isolated. Holotype – URM 7322 Fast growing colonies, 9 cm diam. after 72 h in MEA at 25 °C, [...]
Mucor Fresen. The zygomycota is an artificial grouping of related basal clades comprising the subphyla Mortierellomycotina Kerst. Hoffm. et al., Mucoromycotina Benny, Kickxellomycotina Benny and Zoopagomycotina Benny (Muszewska et al. 2014). The genus Mucor is the largest within the Mucoromycotina and includes more than 50 species several of which have important economical application, including [...]
Gongronella orasabula Hyang B. Lee, K. Voigt, P.M. Kirk & T.T.T. Nguyen, sp. nov. MycoBank number: MB 814447, Facesoffungi number: FoF 02065, Fig. 3 Etymology – orasabula. Referring to beach soil from which the species was first isolated (Busan, Korea). Holotype – EML-QF12-1, deposited at the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Fungarium, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, [...]