Cryptococcus gattii

Cryptococcus gattii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tremellales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Basidiomycota Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina Classis: Tremellomycetes Ordo: Tremellales

Familia: Cryptococcaceae
Genus: Cryptococcus
Species: Cryptococcus gattii

Host-Substratum/Locality: From spinal fluid of man, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Neotype: CBS H-21966

Name

Cryptococcus gattii Kwon-Chung & Boekhout, 2002

Synonymy

• Saccharomyces subcutaneous tumefaciens Curtis, 1896
• Cryptococcus hominis var. tumefaciens Benham, 1935
• Cryptococcus hondurianus Castellani, 1933
• Torulopsis hominis var. honduriana Castellani, 1933
• Torulopsis neoformans var. sheppei Giordani, 1935
• Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii Vanbreuseghem & Takashio, 1970
• Cryptococcus neoformans var. shanghaiensis Liao, Shao, Zhang & Li, 1983
• Filobasidiella bacillispora Kwon-Chung, 1982
• Filobasidiella neoformans var. bacillispora Kwon-Chung, 1982

References

• Hagen, F., Khayhan, K., Theelen, B., Kolecka, A., Polacheck, I., Sionov, E., Falk, R., Parnmen, S., Lumbsch, H.T. & Boekhout, T. 2015. Recognition of seven species in the Cryptococcus gattii/Cryptococcus neoformans species complex. Fungal Genetics and Biology 78: 16–48. DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.02.009 [1] Reference page. 
• Liu, X.-Z., Wang, Q.-M., Göker, M., Groenewald, M., Kachalkin, A.V., Lumbsch, H.T., Millanes, A.M., Wedin, M., Yurkov, A.M., Boekhout, T. & Bai, F.-Y. 2015. Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes. Studies in Mycology 81: 85–147. DOI: 10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001 . ResearchGate . Reference page.