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Marine Microbiology 



TABLE 1 

 Relative incidence of yeasts in sea water 



Estuarian Waters 



(Biscayne Bay, Fla. 



unpublished data of 



Buck and van Uden) 



Open Ocean waters 

 (Gulf Stream near 

 Bimini, Bahamas) 



Pacific Coastal Waters 



(near La Jolla, Calif., 



unpublished data of Van 



Uden and Castelo 



Branco) 



Candida krusei 14% 



C. tropicalis 13% 



Rhodotorula 



mucilaginosa 13% 



R. glutinis 11% 



Candida 



guilliermondii 1 % 

 C. parapsilosis 6% 



R. graminis 5% 



Trichosporon 



cutaneum 3% 



*Species with an 

 incidence of less 

 than 2% 25% 



"Black yeasts" 52% 



Candida 



parapsilosis 34 % 



Rhodotorula 



glutinis 8% 



R. 7nucilaginosa 2% 



Candida 



guilliermondii 2% 



Species with an 



incidence of less 



than 2% 2% 



Cryptococcus laurentii 

 Rhodotorula aurantiaca 

 Debaryomyces kloeckeri 

 Candida tenuis 



Metschnikowiella 



zobellii 21% 



Cryptococcus 



albidus 14% 



Rhodotorula 



glutinis 14% 



"Black yeasts" 14% 



Cryptococcus 



laurentii 9% 



Metscknikowiella 



krissii 9 % 



Cryptococcus terreus 3% 

 Candida 



gu illierm o n dii 3 % 



*Species with an 

 incidence of less 

 than 2% 14% 



* To be reported in a future communication 



TABLE 2 



Yeasts collected from marine sediments 



Estuarian (Biscayne Bay, Florida) 



Deep Sea 



Candida albicans 



C. boidini 



C. intermedia 



C. guilliermondii 



C. melinii 



C. parapsilosis 



C. tropicalis 



Cryptococcus albidus 



C. laurentii 



Rhodotorula glutinis 



R. graminis 



R. minuta 



R. mucilaginosa 



Rhodotorula sp. 



Trichosporon cutaneum 



Debaryomyces kloeckeri 



Saccharomyces aestuarii 



S. fructuum 



GULF STREAM (near Cat Cay, 



Bahamas) 

 Candida curvata 

 C. guilliermondii 

 C. parapsilosis 

 C. tenuis 



Cryptococcus albidus 

 C. neoformans var uniguttulatus 

 Torulopsis famata 



TONGUE OF THE OCEAN (ne; 



High Cay, Andros) 

 Cryptococcus diffluens 

 C. laurentii 

 Rhodotorula glutinis 

 R. mucilaginosa 

 Torulopsis famata 

 Debaryomyces kloeckeri 



