AgriMyc

Phylum	Class	Order	Family	Genus	Species/Subspecies

Species/Subspecies:

Actinomortierella wolfii

Category:

Animal pathogen

Etymology:

Genus name: ?.
Species epithet: ?.

Alternative Species Name(s):

Mortierella wolfii

Common name:

Nål- eller brödmögel.

Significance:

This fungus has no major significance in Sweden, which it does have, however, in many other countries.
[Of minor importance]

Geographic distribution:

Has been reported from Australia, some countries in Europe, Japan, north Amerika and New Zeeland.

Taxonomy:

Phylum	Class	Order	Family	Genus
Mucoromycota	Mortierellomycetes	Mortierellales	Mortierellaceae	Actinomortierella

Actinomortierella wolfii was earlier called Mortierella wolfii and was then placed in the phylum Zygomycota, but this phylum has now been divided into two phyla: Mucoromycota and Zoopagomycota.

Macromorphology (smell):

A. wolfii forms characteristic white and velvety colonies with uneven edges. The colonies can have a diameter of 5 cm after about 5 days of incubation.

Micromorphology:

A. wolfii can be induced to sporulate by subculturing on a nutrient-deficient medium such as hay-infusion agar.
The sporangiophores are erect and very delicate because they are long (100-250 µm) and narrow (5-20 µm). Sporangia are 15-50 µm in diameter and sporangiospores are 6-10 x 3-5 µm.

Soil

ACC-No GenBank	Strain/Isolate	# of chrom	Size (Mbp)
GCA_016098105	NRRL 6351		34.2

18S rRNA Seq:

ACC-No GenBank	Strain/Isolate	Number of NT
KU141329	SSL 18a	1766

ITS regions:

ACC-No GenBank	Strain/Isolate	Number of NT	Genes
MH859875	CBS 611.7	702	18S rRNA, ITS 1, 5.8S rRNA, ITS 2, 28S rRNA

Taxonomy/phylogeny:

Reference(s):

No. 12, 13, 23

Updated:

2022-10-19