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Paracoccidioides species have always been surrounded by taxonomic uncertainties. The continuing nomenclatoral muddle was caused in part by the failure of Adolfo Lutz and Jorge Lôbo to name the etiologic agents of human paracoccidioidomycosis and Jorge Lôbo's diseases, respectively. Early in their history, it was postulated that the cultivable species causing systemic infections belonged in the genus Paracoccidioides, whereas the uncultivable species, causing skin disease, were not part of the genus. The taxonomy of these pathogens was further complicated when a similar skin disease with numerous yeast-like cells in infected dolphins was also reported. Due to its phenotypic similarities with that described by Jorge Lôbo in human and its uncultivable nature, it was assumed that the disease in dolphins was caused by the same fungus. Recent molecular and population genetic analysis, however, found the DNA extracted from the uncultivable yeast-like cells affecting dolphins shared common phylogenetic traits with cultivable Paracoccidioides species. The study revealed that the uncultivable pathogens comprised 2 different Paracoccidioides species, now known as P. ceti and P. loboi, correspondingly. To validate P. loboi binomial, a comprehensive historical critical review of Jorge Lôbo etiology was performed. This review showed the proposed binomial P. loboi was previously used, and, thus, a replacement name is introduced, Paracoccidioides lobogeorgii nom. nov. In addition, in this review, several cultivable human Paracoccidioides species are validated, and the generic type species, P. brasiliensis, is neotypified as the original material could not be traced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(290-295) Proposals to amend Division III to create an "Editorial Committee for Fungi" and to shift the timing of appointment of the Deputy Secretary of the Fungal Nomenclature Bureau After the Nomenclature Section of each International Botanical Congress (IBC) the Editorial Committee (elected at that Congress) is empowered to write the new version of the I International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants i arising from that Congress. The Editorial Committee for Fungi is elected by an International Mycological Congress and comprises individuals who should preferably have been present at the Fungal Nomenclature Session of the relevant International Mycological Congress and includes the Secretary of the Editorial Committee for this I Code i . [Extracted from the article]

Two anamorph-typified names are older than I P. psidii i and threaten this name, viz., I Caeoma eugeniarum i , introduced in 1825, and I Uredo neurophila i , which dates back to early 1884. I Austropuccinia psidii i is an economically important plant disease that threatens cultivated myrtaceous host plants worldwide, above all in Australia and South America (Walker in Austral. The involvement of a name for an important plant disease and its continuous application since 1884 are in favour of the maintenance of the epithet ' I psidii i ', now as I Austropuccinia psidii i . [Extracted from the article]

A series of isolates of Cladosporium spp. were recovered in the course of a cooperative study on galls formed by midges of the genus Asphondylia (Diptera, Cecidomyidae) on several species of Lamiaceae. The finding of these fungi in both normal and galled flowers was taken as an indication that they do not have a definite relationship with the midges. Moreover, identification based on DNA sequencing showed that these isolates are taxonomically heterogeneous and belong to several species which are classified in two different species complexes. Two new species, Cladosporium polonicum and Cladosporium neapolitanum, were characterized within the Cladosporium cladosporioides species complex based on strains from Poland and Italy, respectively. Evidence concerning the possible existence of additional taxa within the collective species C. cladosporioides and C. pseudocladosporioides is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]