A. clavatus

ID: 9

Medically significant: yes

Classification agreed: y

Contentious not verified: n

In ncbi taxonomy database: y

Available from atcc: y

CBS: y

Previous CBS: unknown

Sexual CBS: unknown

Contentious name: unknown

Previous name, contentious name: unknown

Sexual form exists: unknown

Sexual form contentious name: n

Sexual form in ncbi taxonomy database: n

Previous name in NCBI taxonomy database: n

Previous name available at ATCC: unknown

Reference (original paper):

Desmazières, J.B.H.J. 1834. Descriptions et figures de six hyphomycètes inédites à ajouter à la flore Française. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique. 2:69-73

Medical significance update: The First Case of Total Dystrophic Onychomycosis Caused by Aspergillus clavatus Resistant to Antifungal Drugs. Falahati M, Ghojoghi A, Abastabar M, Ghasemi Z, Farahyar S, Roudbary M, Hedayati MT, Armaki MT, Hoseinnejad A. Mycopathologia. 2016 Apr;181(3-4):273-7. doi: 10.1007/s11046-015-9954-6.

Taxonomic family: Fungi, Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Eurotiomycetes, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiales, Trichocomaceae, Aspergillus

Species images:

  • Aspergillus clavatus

    Isolate from environmental sample

    A. clavatus, A. clavatus, A. clavatus

  • Aspergillus clavatus

    A colour enhanced image.

    Clavatus300dpi

  • Aspergillus cretensis

    A Colonies on MEA after one week;B conidial heads and tip of conidiophore, x 230; C conidial head, x920; E conidial head, x920. Copyright B.Flannigan, R Samson & JD Miller (From Microorganisms in home and indoor work environments, Published by Taylor and Francis)

    microclavatus

  • Aspergillus clavatus

    microscopic characters Conidiophore stipes(C)1300-2800um long:Vesicles(V)40-70um wide,clavate:Phialides(Ph) uniseriate:Conidia(Con)3.5-4.0um long,smooth walled.

    AclavcP2

  • Aspergillus clavatus

    growing on contaminated barley malt. The deep blue-green heads made up of chains of conidia are seen on the left. On the right, conidiophores from which conidial chains are developed show typical clavate heads. Stain- Cotton blue in Lactophenol.

    aclavcorel

  • Aspergillus clavatus

    Left= an agar air plate exposed for 2 minutes after the barley had been turned. showing numerous colonies of the fungus following incubation at 26C on 2% malt agar.Right= A sputum sample taken from a maltworker after exposure showing many fungal colonies when cultured on agar. His commensal yeast flora is seen towards the right base as cream/white colonies.

    airsput

Currently accepted name (anamorph): A. clavatus

Index Fungorum: Link

Mycobank: Link

Taxonomic family: Fungi, Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Eurotiomycetes, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiales, Trichocomaceae, Aspergillus

Computed content type (Species): Species

Species

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  • A. qinqixianii

    Horie, Y.; Abliz, P.; Hui, Y.; Fukiharu, T.; Nishimura, K.; Li, D.-M.; Li, R.-Y. 2000. Emericella qinqixianii, a new species from desert soil in China. Mycoscience. 41(2):183

    unknown

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    Link

  • A. pyri

    English WH,

    unknown

    Link
    Link

  • A. thesauricus

    Novakova, A.; Hubka, V.; Saiz-Jimenez, C.; Kolarik, M. 2012. Aspergillus baeticus sp. nov. and Aspergillus thesauricus sp. nov., two species in section Usti from Spanish caves. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62(Pt.2):2783

    no

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  • A. pyramidus

    R.S. Dwivedi, Proc. 56th Indian Sci. Congr.: 306 (1969)

    unknown

    Link
    Link

  • A. pusillus

    Massee, G.E. 1914. Fungi exotici, XVIII. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Informations of the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. 1914:158

    unknown

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  • A. purpureofuscus

    Fries, E.M. 1832. Systema Mycologicum. 3:388

    unknown

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    Link

  • A. creber

    Jurjevic, S. W. Peterson & B. W. Horn 2012

    unknown

    n/a
    n/a

  • A. pulchellus

    Thom, C.; Church, M. 1926. The Aspergilli. :181

    unknown

    Link
    Link

  • A. pseudoniger

    Mosseray, R. 1934. Les Aspergillus de la section “Niger” Thom et Church. La Cellule. 43:203-285

    unknown

    Link
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  • A. cvjetkovicii

    Jurjevic Z, Peterson SW, Horn BW. (2012) Aspergillus section Versicolores: nine new species and multilocus DNA sequence based phylogeny. IMA Fungus, 3(1):59-79. doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2012.03.01.07. Epub 2012 Jun 21.

    unknown

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