Additional Species of Zoopagaceae Subsisting on Rhizopods and Eelworms

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Eight fungi found in Petri plate cultures planted with decaying vegetable detritus are described as new members of the Zoopagaceae. Acaulopage dasyspora, which captures small amoebae and produces globose conidia beset with numerous digitate protuberances, occurs in Louisiana and Florida. A. dactylophora with lobate spinose conidis, and A. bicornis with conidia bearing a bifurcate apical appendage, likewise were obtained from decaying plant material collected in Louisiana. A. longicornis, which produces conidia with an apical appendage most often consisting of 3 prongs, was found in leaf mold from deciduous woods in central Maryland. Cochlonema_explicatum, which subsists as an ectoparasite on Sphenoderia dentata, and Eurancale obiiqua , a parasite on eelworms, came from plant detritus originating in eastern Maryland. Cystopage ellipsospora and C. sphaerospora both subsist by capture of amoebae, the former having been obtained from southern Louisiana, the latter from central Maryland and western New Jersey. A zoopagaceous fungus found in Wisconsin leaf mold, which captures large amoebae and produces crustose zygospores, is discussed but is left unnamed as its asexual reproduction remains unknown.
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