A new occurrence of Mucor nidicola (Madden, Stchigel, Guarro, Sutton et Starks) (Mucorales, Mucoromycota) in the Upland Rainforest of the Brazilian Northeast and first report as a saprobe in soil

By

Lima, Diogo Xavier
Corderiro, Thalline Rafhaella Leite
Lima, Catarina Letícia Ferreira De
Fragoso de Souza, Carlos Alberto
Santiago, André L.C.M. De Azevedo
Souza-Motta, Cristina Maria

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-2-14

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

16

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

163--167

Subjects

ITS rDNA , ITS rDNA , Mucoromyceta , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.163

 

Abstract

Mucor nidicola, a mucoralean fungus, was isolated for the first time from a wasp nest in Massachusetts, USA, and then reported in the state of Paraná, Brazil, as an entomopathogenic fungus collected from insects in strawberry crops. This work reports the first occurrence of M. nidicola from soil in the Brazilian Northeast. This species is distinguished from other species by producing erect, unbranched, and once-branched sporangiophores, globose to subglobose columellae, and mostly ellipsoidal sporangiospores, but with some irregular and varying in size and shape.