Rotiferophthora – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13108

Rotiferophthora G.L. Barron, Can. J. Bot. 69(3): 495 (1991)

MycoBank number: MB 25566; Index Fungorum number: IF 25566; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13108; 26 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Rotiferophthora globospora G.L. Barron

Notes – The genus was established by to accommodate diheterospora-like endoparasites of rotifers (Barron 1991). There is no sexual morph linked to this genus. The genus infects rotifers and produces phialides with short conidiiferous necks and dictyochlamydospores (Barron 1991).

Species