Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Saccharomycetes >>  Order: Saccharomycetales 
   
 
 BCRC Number NO BCRC Number!  
   
 Scientific Name: Candida catenulata
 
   
   
 Author:

Candida catenulata Diddens & Lodder, Die anaskosporogenen Hefen, II. H?lfte. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1942.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Growth onYM agar: After 7 days at 25℃, colonies cream-colored, dull, soft, smooth. After 3 days at 25℃, the cells ovoidal to cylindroidal (2.0-3.5 × 3.0-5.0 μm), single, in pairs and chains, reproduction by budding. Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar: Pseudohyphae consist of chains of ovoidal or cylindroidal cells, and sometimes bear small verticals of ovoidal blastocondida.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

SE4-1 (=BCRC 22989), river water, Er-Jen river, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, September, 2000.

 
 
 
 Habitat: River water
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Netherlands, Germany, UK, India, Finland.

 
 
 
 References:

Tien, CJ and Wang, PH. 2003.

   
   
   
 Provided:

P. H. Wang

 
 
 Note: This species is placed in biological safety level 1.