Dactylosporaceae

The Dactylosporaceae or Sclerococcaceae^[1] are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the class Eurotiomycetes.^[2] It is the only family of the order Sclerococcales and subclass Sclerococcomycetidae.^[1][3]

Dactylosporaceae
Sclerococcum stygium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Subclass:	Sclerococcomycetidae Réblová, Unter. & W.Gams (2016)
Order:	Sclerococcales Réblová, Unter. & W.Gams (2016)
Family:	Dactylosporaceae Bellem. & Hafellner (1982)
Type genus
Dactylospora Körb. (1855)
Genera
Cylindroconidiis Fusichalara Gamsomyces Longimultiseptata Pseudobactrodesmium Rhopalophora Sclerococcum
Synonyms
Sclerococcaceae Réblová, Unter. & W.Gams (2016)[1]

Taxonomy

There are currently seven genera in the family:^[3]

• Cylindroconidiis H.Zhang & X.D.Yu (2018) – 1 species
• Fusichalara S.Hughes & Nag Raj (1973)^[4] – 5 species
• Gamsomyces Hern.-Restr. & Réblová (2020)^[5] – 1 species
• Longimultiseptata H.Zhang & W.Dong (2019)^[6] – 2 species
• Pseudobactrodesmium H.Zhang, W.Dong & K.D.Hyde (2020)^[7] – 3 species
• Rhopalophora Réblová, Unter. & W.Gams (2016) – 1 species
• Sclerococcum Fr. (1825) (=Dactylospora Körb. (1855), the type genus)^[8] – around 5080 species

References

1. Réblová M, Untereiner WA, Štěpánek V, et al. (6 December 2016). "Disentangling Phialophora section Catenulatae: disposition of taxa with pigmented conidiophores and recognition of a new subclass, Sclerococcomycetidae (Eurotiomycetes)". Mycol Progress. 16 (1) (published January 2017): 27–46. doi:10.1007/s11557-016-1248-y. S2CID 255314698.
2. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
3. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
4. Yu XD, Dong W, Bhat DJ, Boonmee S, et al. (10 October 2018). "Cylindroconidiis aquaticus gen. et sp. nov., a new lineage of aquatic hyphomycetes in Sclerococcaceae (Eurotiomycetes)". Phytotaxa. 372 (1): 79–87. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.372.1.6. S2CID 91488402.
5. Réblová M, Hernández-Restrepo M, Fournier J, Nekvindová J (1 March 2020). "New insights into the systematics of Bactrodesmium and its allies and introducing new genera, species and morphological patterns in the Pleurotheciales and Savoryellales (Sordariomycetes)". Studies in Mycology. 95 (1). Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute: 415–466. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2020.02.002. PMC 7426232. PMID 32855744.
6. 于显东 (2019). "粪壳菌纲 Chaetosphaeriaceae 科分子系统学研究及十六株淡水真菌新种的分类鉴定". Master's thesis, 昆明理工大学.
7. Dong W, Hyde KD, Doilom M, Yu XD, et al. (2 April 2020). "Pseudobactrodesmium (Dactylosporaceae, Eurotiomycetes, Fungi) a novel lignicolous genus". Frontiers in Microbiology. 11 (465): 456. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00456. PMC 7144566. PMID 32300334.
8. Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. ISSN 0007-2745. S2CID 92396850.