Sporothrix schenckii Hektoen & C.F. Perkins 1901

Details

Name scientific

Sporothrix schenckii Hektoen & C.F. Perkins, J. Exp. Med. 5 80 (1901)

Preferred name

Sporothrix schenckii Hektoen & C.F. Perkins 1901

Taxonomy reference

de Beer, Z.W.; Harrington, T.C.; Visner, H.F.; Wingfield, B.D.; Wingfield, M.J.de Beer, Z.W.; Harrington, T.C.; Vismer, H.F.; Wingfield, B.D.; Wingfield, M.J. 2003: Phylogeny of the Ophiostoma stenoceras-Sporothrix schenckii complex. Mycologia 95(3): 434-441.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Uncertain

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

diagnosed from skin lesions of a patient who had never left NZ [e-mail, 2 Jun 2005, Mary Hudson, Microbiology Manager, Medlab Gisborne Ltd.]

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hektoen & C.F. Perkins

Authors

Hektoen & C.F. Perkins

Publication place

Hektoen, L.; Perkins, C.F. 1901: Refractory subcutaneous abcesses caused by Sporothrix schenckii, a new pathogenic fungus. Journal of Experimental Medicine 5: 77-89.

Year published

1901

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Sporothrix schenckii Hektoen & C.F. Perkins 1901

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Sporothrix schenckii

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Sordariomycetes

Order

Ophiostomatales

Family

Ophiostomataceae

Genus

Sporothrix

Species

schenckii

Descriptions

de Beer, Z.W.; Duong, T.A.; Wingfield, M.J. 2016: The divorce of Sporothrix and Ophiostoma: solution to a problematic relationship. Studies in Mycology 83: 165-191.

Sporothrix schenckii Hektoen & C.F. Perkins 1901

Notes

The asexual morph of Ophiostoma stenoceras has often been referred to as Sporothrix schenckii, but De Beer et al. (2003) showed that the two species are distinct. Our analyses of all four gene regions supported the separation of the two species (Figs 1–4).