Hortaea werneckii (Horta) Nishim. & Miyaji 1984

Details

Name scientific

Hortaea werneckii (Horta) Nishim. & Miyaji, Jap. J. Med. Mycol. 26 145 (1984)

Preferred name

Hortaea werneckii (Horta) Nishim. & Miyaji 1984

Taxonomy reference

Bensch, K.; Braun, U.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Crous, P.W. 2012: The genus Cladosporium. Studies in Mycology 71: 1-401.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

(Horta) Nishim. & Miyaji

Original authors

Horta

Combination authors

Nishim. & Miyaji

Publication place

Nishimura, K.; Miyaji, M. 1984: Hortaea, a new genus to accommodate Cladosporium werneckii. Japanese Journal of Medical Mycology 26(2): 139-146.

Year published

1984

Publication page

145

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cladosporium werneckii Horta 1921

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hortaea werneckii

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Order

Capnodiales

Family

Teratosphaeriaceae

Genus

Hortaea

Species

werneckii

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Homo sapiens L., 1758

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

Gostinčar, Cene 2020: Towards Genomic Criteria for Delineating Fungal Species. Journal of Fungi 6(4): 246.

Hortaea werneckii (Horta) Nishim. & Miyaji 1984

Notes

This is exemplified by Hortaea werneckii, an extremely halotolerant black yeast with a very peculiar genome. The taxonomy of the species was recently carefully revised, but despite the very large within-species genomic distances it could not be broken into several species [46]. The reason for this was that while the population genomics indicates the species is strictly clonal, the diploid genomes of the species are hybrids of relatively divergent haploid genomes and these hybrids appear to be stable over long periods of time [47].