Synonym and Classification Data for Cryptococcus spp.
This genus is a basidiomycetous yeast. See also the detailed description page for this genus.
Species in this genus
- Cryptococcus aerius
- Cryptococcus albidosimilis
- Cryptococcus albidusFilobasidium floriforme is a teleomorph of this species.
Torula albida is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Torulopsis albida is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Cryptococcus albidus var. albidus
- Cryptococcus albidus var. difluens
- Cryptococcus amylolentus
- Cryptococcus antarcticus
- Cryptococcus aquaticus
- Cryptococcus ater
- Cryptococcus bacillisporus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of C. neoformans var. gattii
- Cryptococcus bhutanensis
- Cryptococcus capillitii (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Malassezia furfur
- Cryptococcus capsulatus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum
- Cryptococcus carollinus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus consortionis
- Cryptococcus curvatus
- Cryptococcus dimennae
- Cryptococcus feraegula
- Cryptococcus flavus
- Cryptococcus friedmannii
- Cryptococcus fuscescens
- Cryptococcus gastricus
- Cryptococcus gilvescens
- Cryptococcus glabratus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Candida glabrata
- Cryptococcus heveanensis
- Cryptococcus huempii
- Cryptococcus humicolusNotes: In The Yeasts, 4th edition, Kurtzman and Fell (eds.), 1998, Candida humicola is a synonym of Crytococcus humicolus. The species name spelling had to be changed to match Cryptococcus. The species was originally called Torula humicola when it was named in 1912. It was transferred to the genus Candida in 1942. It was finally transferred to Cryptococcus in 1981.
Candida humicola is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Torula humicola is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Cryptococcus hungaricus
- Cryptococcus kuetzingii
- Cryptococcus laurentii
- Cryptococcus ludwigi (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus luteolus
- Cryptococcus macerans
- Cryptococcus magnus
- Cryptococcus malassezi (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Malassezia furfur
- Cryptococcus marinus
- Cryptococcus mena (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus meningitidis (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of C. neoformans
- Cryptococcus neoformansNotes: This is the type species: (Sanfelice) Vuillemin 1901. The grubii, gattii, & neoformans varieties are fairly recent designations within Cryptococcus neoformans. Obsolete synonyms of C. neoformans may well have referred to any of these varieties. The var. grubii corresponds to serotype A strains, var. neoformans to serotype D strains, and var. gattii to serotype B and C strains.
C. meningitidis is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Saccharomyces neoformans is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Torulopsis neoformans is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattiiC. bacillisporus is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Filobasidiella neoformans var. bacillispora is a teleomorph of this species. - Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubiiFilobasidiella neoformans var. neoformans is a teleomorph of this species.
- Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformansFilobasidiella neoformans var. neoformans is a teleomorph of this species.
- Cryptococcus pachydermatis (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Malassezia pachydermatis
- Cryptococcus pararoseus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus podzolicus
- Cryptococcus radiatus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus ruber (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus rubrorugosus (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus sanniei (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus simplex (obsolete)This obsolete species is a synonym of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
- Cryptococcus skinneri
- Cryptococcus terreus
- Cryptococcus uniguttulatusFilobasidium uniguttulatum is a teleomorph of this species.
- Cryptococcus vishniacii
- Cryptococcus yarrowii