Torulaspora ventriculi, Silva & Paraíso & Al-Oboudi & Abegg & Aires & Barros & Brito & Jarzyna & Sylvester & Langdon & Opulente & Carriconde & Fell & Hofmann & Lachance & Legras & Libkind & Pontes & Gonçalves & Rosa & Groenewald & Hittinger & Sampaio, 2025

Torulaspora ventriculi f.a. M. Silva, F. Paraíso & J.P. Sampaio, sp. nov. MB 853986 View Materials . Fig. 4 View Fig AA .

Etymology: Torulaspora ventriculi . ven.tri’cu.li, L. gen. n. ventriculi, of the ventriculus, referring to the digestive tract, the habitat where several strains of this species were found.

Typus: Mozambique, Vila Cabral, human faeces, 1958, N. van Uden (holotype PYCC 2995 View Materials H, ex-holotype cultures PYCC 2995 View Materials , CBS 4887 View Materials ). The holotype is permanently maintained in a metabolically inactive state in the Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, Caparica, Portugal. The genome of this species was deposited at DDBJ /ENA/GenBank under the accession GCA_964263485. The version described in this paper is v. 1 .

Description: After 1 wk on YM agar at 25 °C, cultures are smooth, cream-coloured, and butyrous. After 3 d of growth on YM agar at 25 °C, cells are globose (2–5 µm) and occur singly or in pairs, and proliferation is by multilateral budding ( Fig. 4 View Fig AA). On Dalmau plates after 2 wk at 25 °C, no pseudohyphae nor true hyphae are formed. Sexual reproduction was not observed on acetate agar or corn meal agar after prolonged incubation (3 mo) at 18 °C. The physiological and biochemical profile of the species in shown in Table 1 and Table S5.

Habitat and distribution: This species was found in soil and faeces (human and hippopotamus). Currently known from collections in Mozambique (Vila Cabral and Incomati River) and Papua New Guinea.

Additional cultures examined: CBS 2947, PYCC 2996, PYCC 2997 (see Table S1 for details).