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Chrysosporium longisporum

species of fungus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ23908242 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chrysosporium longisporum is a keratinophilic microfungus in the family Onygenaceae that causes skin infections in reptiles, producing hyaline, thin-walled, small, sessile conidia and colonies with a strong skunk-like odour.

References

Further reading

Sigler, Lynne, Sarah Hambleton, and Jean A. Paré. "Molecular characterization of reptile pathogens currently known as members of the Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii complex and relationship with some human-associated isolates." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 51.10 (2013): 3338–3357.

Paré, Jean A., and Lynne Sigler. "An overview of reptile fungal pathogens in the genera Nannizziopsis, Paranannizziopsis, and Ophidiomyces." Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery (2016).

External links

"Chrysosporium longisporum". The Encyclopedia of Life.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chrysosporium longisporum” as species of fungus. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chrysosporium, longisporum and species can be independently traced.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23908242. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chrysosporium longisporum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.