Check List 16(1): 163-167, doi: 10.15560/16.1.163
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
Diogo Xavier Lima‡, Thalline Rafhaella Leite Corderiro‡, Catarina Letícia Ferreira de Lima‡, Carlos Alberto Fragoso de Souza‡, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro de Azevedo Santiago‡, Cristina Maria Souza-Motta‡‡ Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Corresponding author: Diogo Xavier Lima ( diogo_xavier00@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Roger Fagner Ribeiro Melo © Diogo Xavier Lima, Thalline Rafhaella Leite Corderiro, Catarina Letícia Ferreira de Lima, Carlos Alberto Fragoso de Souza, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro de Azevedo Santiago, Cristina Maria Souza-Motta. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Lima DX, Corderiro TRL, Lima CLF, de Souza CAF, Santiago ALCMA, Souza-Motta CM (2020) 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. Check List 16(1): 163-167. 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.
Keywords
ITS rDNA; Mucoromyceta; taxonomy