A New Species of Arthroderma Established According to Biological Species Concepts

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SUMMARY Thirteen soil isolates of Arthroderma lenticularum which possesses a Trichophyton terrestre imperfect stage, and a Arthroderma perfect stage were obtained. A. lenticularum would not mate with any known Arthroderma species, but exhibited complete intraspecific compatibility. It therefore fulfilled the primary criterion of a biological species. The most reliable method for identification and separation of it from A. quadrifidum was that of mating incompatibility. Morphologically A. lenticularum possesses the T. terrestre conidial form and the symmetrically dumb-bell shaped peridial cells of A. uncinatum. It is further distinguished by its yellow pigmentation.