Isolation of Papulaspora halima and a new morphological variety of Halosphaeria tubulifera from seawater of Potter cove (King George island, South Shetland island, Antarctica)

STCHIGEL AM; CALDUCH M; GUARRO J; RUBERTO LAM; MAC CORMACK WP

BOLETIM MICOLOGICO

Universidad de Valparaíso

Lugar: Valparaíso; Año: 2009 vol. 24 p. 21 - 25

0716-114X

Marine fungi ascribed to the ascomycetes and the hyphomycetes are infrequently reported for the Southern Ocean. For this reason, the main objetive of the present work was to detect the presence of these fungi in seawater of Potter Cove, King George (25 de mayo) Island, South Shetland Island, Antarctica. For this purpouse marine fungi were grown on wood test panels, placed into plastic nets in the tidial zone, exposed to the Antarctic seawater for different periods of time, wich ranged between 2 and 12 months. As a result of this survey, we were able to recover and identify two marine fungi, Papulospora halima (wich rresents the first report for this environment) and a new morphological variety of Halosphaeria tubulifera.