2.5.10 Neocamarosporium aestuarinum

Gonçalves et al. (2019) described three new Neocamarosporium species from marine habitats, N. aestuarinum from seawater and N. halimiones and N. endophyticum from Halimione portulacoides based on a phylogenetic analysis of ITS rDNA sequences. Neocamarosporium aestuarinum grouped with N. jorjanensis with good support. Morphologically, both species are similar with slight differences in conidial dimension (Papizadeh et al. 2018), and 23 nucleotide positions (substitution or insertion/deletion) in ITS rDNA. It is important to calculate, however, the genetic differences within and between species of Neocamarosporium in order to use differences in nucleotide positions in differentiating species in the genus. Currently nine marine Neocamarosporium species are included in the marine fungi checklist, with new saltmarsh species N. aquaticum, N. chenopodii, N. maritimae N. phragmitis and N. salsolae (Calabon et al. 2021; Dayarathne et al. 2020a; Prematunga et al. 2023; Wanasinghe et al. 2017).