Backusella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Mucoromyceta
Divisio: Mucoromycota
Subdivisio: Mucoromycotina
Classis: Mucoromycetes
Ordo: Mucorales

Familia: Backusellaceae
Genus: Backusella
Species: B. australiensis – B. azygospora – B. circina – B. constrica – B. dispersa – B. gigacellularis – B. granulispora – B. indica – B. lamprospora – B. liffmaniae – B. locustae – B. luteola – B. macrospora – B. mclennaniae – B. morwellensis – B. oblongielliptica – B. oblongispora – B. parvicylindrica – B. psychrophila – B. recurva – B. tarrabulga – B. tuberculispora – B. variabilis – B. westeae
Name

Backusella Hesselt. & J.J.Ellis in Ellis & Hesseltine, Mycologia 61(5): 863 (1969). [MycoBank #20067]

Type Species: Backusella circina J.J.Ellis & Hesselt., Mycologia 61(5): 865 (1969). [MycoBank #326867]

References

Ellis, J.J. & Hesseltine, C.W. 1969. Two new members of the Mucorales. Mycologia 61(5): 863–872. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.1969.12018810 Hybrid open access journal. Cyberliber Reference page.

Urquhart A.S., Douch J.K., Heafield, T.A., Buddie, A.G. & Idnurm, A. 2020 [‘2021’]. Diversity of Backusella (Mucoromycotina) in south-eastern Australia revealed through polyphasic taxonomy. Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 46: 1–25. DOI: 10.3767/persoonia.2021.46.01 Open access. Reference page.

Links

Index Fungorum: IF 20067
MycoBank: MB 20067

Vernacular names

Backusella is the sole genus of zygote fungi in the family Backusellaceae, which is classified in the order Mucorales.[1] Members of this genus have been often isolated from plant litter, from locations around the world.[2]
Taxonomy

C. W. Hesseltine and J. J. Ellis recognised the uniqueness of a new species, B. circina, warranted its classification in a new genus; in 1969 they established Backusella, named in honour of Professor M. P. Backus. Since then, several species previously placed in the archetypal mucoralean genus Mucor were reassessed, found to be close relatives of B. circina, and combined into Backusella as additional Backusella species, while other species were discovered and classified outright as Backusella.[1] K. Voigt & P.M. Kirk established the family Backusellaceae to include Backusella in 2012, as they likewise recognised the uniqueness of the genus and the need to classify it within a distinct family.
Accepted species

The genus consists of the following 27 accepted species:[3][2][4][5][6][7]

The genus consists of the following 27 accepted species:^[3]^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Backusella australiensis Urquhart & Douch
Backusella azygospora T.R.L. Cordeiro et al.
Backusella chlamydospora Hyang B. Lee & T.T.T. Nguyen
Backusella circina J.J. Ellis & Hesselt. – generic type species

Synonym: Mucor pseudolamprosporus H. Nagan. & Hirahara

Synonym: B. johorensis L.S. Loh et al.

Backusella constricta D.X. Lima et al.
Backusella dispersa (Hagem) Urquhart & Douch

Basionym: M. dispersus Hagem

Backusella gigacellularis J.I. Souza et al.
Backusella granulispora L.S. Loh & Kuthub.
Backusella indica (Baijal & B.S. Mehrotra) Walther & de Hoog

Basionym: M. recurvus var. indicus [as 'indica' ] Baijal & B.S. Mehrotra

Backusella koreana Hyang B. Lee et al.
Backusella lamprospora (Lendn.) Benny & R.K. Benj. (1975)

Basionym: M. lamprosporus Lendn.

Synonym: B. circina var. lamprospora (Lendn.) R.Y. Zheng

Backusella liffmaniae Urquhart & Douch
Backusella locustae Hyang B. Lee et al.
Backusella luteola Urquhart & Douch
Backusella macrospora Urquhart & Douch
Backusella mclennaniae Urquhart & Douch
Backusella morwellensis Urquhart & Douch
Backusella oblongielliptica (H. Nagan. et al. ex Pidopl. & Milko) Walther & de Hoog

Basionym: M. oblongiellipticus H. Nagan. et al. ex Pidopl. & Milko

Backusella oblongispora (Naumov) Walther & de Hoog

Basionym: M. oblongisporus Naumov

Backusella parvicylindrica Urquhart & Douch
Backusella psychrophila Urquhart & Douch
Backusella recurva (E.E. Butler) Walther & de Hoog

Basionym: M. recurvus E.E. Butler

Synonym: M. recurvus var. aspinosus L.S. Loh

Synonym: M. aromaticus Povah

Backusella tarrabulga Urquhart & Douch
Backusella thermophila Hyang B. Lee et al.
Backusella tuberculispora (Schipper 1978) G. Walther & de Hoog

Basionym: M. tuberculisporus Schipper 1978

Synonym: M. heterosporus sensu Baijal & Mehrotra; fide Schipper

Backusella variabilis (A.K. Sarbhoy) G. Walther & de Hoog

Basionym: M. variabilis A.K. Sarbhoy

Synonym: M. grandis Schipper & Samson

Synonym: B. grandis (Schipper & Samson) G. Walther & de Hoog

Backusella westeae Urquhart & Douch

Former species

The following species was at one point considered by some authorities to be in the genus Backusella, although this is no longer so:[3]

Mucor ctenidius (Durrell & M. Fleming) Pidopl. & Milko ex Benny & R.K. Benj.

Basionym: Thamnidium ctenidium Durrell & M. Fleming
Synonym: B. ctenidia (Durrell & M. Fleming) Pidopl. & Milko ex Benny & R.K. Benj.

See also

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References

"Backusella". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
Urquhart, A.S.; Douch, J.K.; Heafield, T.A.; Buddie, A.G.; Idnurm, A. (2020). "Diversity of Backusella (Mucoromycotina) in south-eastern Australia revealed through polyphasic taxonomy". Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2021.46.01. ISSN 0031-5850.
"Backusella species". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
D.X. Lima; K. Voigt; C.A.F. De Souza; R.J.V. De Oliveira; C.M. Souza-Motta; A.L.C.M. De A. Santiago (2016). "Description of Backusella constricta sp. nov. (Mucorales, ex Zygomycota) from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, including a key to species of Backusella". Phytotaxa. 289: 59–68. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.289.1.4.
J.I. de Souza; A.V. Marano; C.L.A. Pires-Zottarelli; F.S. Chambergo; R. Harakava (2014). "A new species of Backusella (Mucorales) from a Cerrado reserve in Southeast Brazil". Mycological Progress. 13 (4): 975–980. doi:10.1007/s11557-014-0981-3. S2CID 18374496.
D.N. Wanasinghe; et al. (2018). "Fungal diversity notes 709–839: taxonomic and phylogenetic contribution to fungal taxa with an emphasis on fungi on Rosaceae". Fungal Diversity. 89: 1–236. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0395-7. S2CID 3847846.

Nguyen, Thuong T. T.; Voigt, Kerstin; Santiago, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro de Azevedo; Kirk, Paul M.; Lee, Hyang-Burm (2021). "Discovery of Novel Backusella (Backusellaceae, Mucorales) Isolated from Invertebrates and Toads in Cheongyang, Korea". Journal of Fungi. 7 (7): 513. doi:10.3390/jof7070513. PMC 8303511. PMID 34199055.