Pantelleria Tedersoo, 2025

Tedersoo, Leho, Hosseyni Moghadam, Mahdieh S., Panksep, Kristel, Prins, Victoria, Anslan, Sten, Mikryukov, Vladimir, Bahram, Mohammad, Abarenkov, Kessy, Kõljalg, Urmas, Esmaeilzadeh-Salestani, Keyvan, Pawłowska, Julia, Wurzbacher, Christian, Ding, Yi, Alkahtani, Saad Hussin & Nilsson, R. Henrik, 2025, Thirty novel fungal lineages: formal description based on environmental samples and DNA, MycoKeys 124, pp. 1-121 : 1-121

Pantelleria Tedersoo gen. nov.

Type species.

Pantelleria saittana Tedersoo .

Diagnosis.

Distinguishable from other fungi based on diagnostic nucleotide signature in SSU V 9 (positions 1671–1684 gaamctcggatcgtt in S. cerevisiae ; one mismatch allowed), ITS 2 (positions 99–113 tcatttacttttaag in type species; one mismatch allowed), and 5.8S (positions 119–133 in type species and 120–134 in S. cerevisiae ataggtattcctrtg; one mismatch allowed). Forms a monophyletic, least inclusive clade in Pantelleriaceae, covering sequences EUK 1200019 and EUK 1137930 (Figs 1 , 2 ).

Notes.

Recognized based on eDNA sequences only. Contains 6–7 potential species represented by sequences MW 163794 (cropland soil in Italy), OU 496195 (unspecified soil in China), EUK 0348072 (cropland soil in Benin), EUK 0348070 ( woodland soil in Turkey), EUK 1137930 (urban soil in Estonia), and EUK 0516893 (park soil in Estonia).

Figures

Figure 1. Maximum Likelihood SSU- 5.8 S-LSU phylogram indicating placement of novel lineages in the fungal kingdom as highlighted in a coloured shade and red font. Previously described taxonomic clades are collapsed. All branches of Sumavosporidiomycetes and Gelotisporidiomycetes are shortened two-fold. Poorly supported branches with bootstrap values below 95 % / 99 % are indicated in blue. The original tree with bootstrap values and uncollapsed branches is indicated in Suppl. material 1.

Figure 2. Maximum Likelihood SSU- ITS - LSU phylogram indicating the position of Pantelleria saittana within Pantelleriomycetes, with ultra-rapid bootstrap values indicated (for higher-level classifications mainly). Other genus-level groups are collapsed. Aphelidiomycota spp. were used as an outgroup.