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

Candida lipolytica (Harrison) Diddens and Lodder, Die anaskosporogenen Hefen, II. H?lfte. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1942.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Growth onYM agar: After 7 days at 25℃, colony tannish-white, smooth with the entire margins. After 3 days at 25℃, the cell spheroidal, ellipsoidal to elongate (2.0-5.0 × 2.5-6.0 μm), single, in pairs or small clusters, reproduction by budding. Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar: Pseudohyphae and ture hyphae present with blastoconidia.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

ST8-7a, river water, Tamshui river, Taipei, Taiwan, August, 2000.
 
 
 
　Habitat： River water
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, USA, Hungary, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Japan, Germany, USA, France, Argentina, UK, Russia, Norway, Indain Ocean.
 
 
 
　References：

Meyer, SA, Payne, RW and Yarrow, D. 2000.
   
   
   
　Provided：

P. H. Wang
 
 
　Note： This species is placed in biological safety level 1. Teleomorph: Yarrowia lipolytica.