Synonym and Classification Data for Candida spp.
This genus is an ascomycetous yeast. See also the detailed description page for this genus.
Synonyms and Teleomorph-Anamorph Relationships
Mycotorula is an obsolete synonym of this genus
Torulopsis is an obsolete synonym of this genus
Notes on this Genus
The genus name Candida is technically nom. cons. (nomen conservandum). Even though the type species for this genus was described after the genus Torulopsis was created, Dr. Rhoda Benham proposed that the widespread name Candida take precedence lest major confusion subsequently ensue.
Species in this genus
- Candida aaseri
- Candida albicans
C. claussenii is an obsolete synonym of this species.
C. langeroni is an obsolete synonym of this species.
C. stellatoidea is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Monilia albicans is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Candida amapae
- Candida anatomiae
- Candida ancudensis
- Candida antillancae
- Candida apicola
- Candida apis
- Candida atlantica
- Candida atmosphaerica
- Candida auringiensis
- Candida austromarina
- Candida azyma
- Candida beechii
- Candida bertae
- Candida berthetii
- Candida blankii
C. hydrocarbofumarica is an obsolete synonym of this species.
- Candida boidinii
- Candida boleticola
- Candida bombi
- Candida bombicola
- Candida buinensis
- Candida butyri
- Candida cantarellii
- Candida caseinolytica
- Candida castellani (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. krusei
- Candida castellii
- Candida castrensis
- Candida catenulata
- Candida chilensis
- Candida chiropterorum
- Candida chodatii
Hyphopichia burtonii is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida ciferrii
Sporothrix catenata is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Stephanoascus ciferrii is a teleomorph of this species. - Candida claussenii (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. albicans
- Candida coipomoensis
- Candida conglobata
- Candida cylindracea
- Candida dendrica
- Candida dendronema
- Candida deserticola
Pichia deserticola is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida diddensiae
- Candida diversa
- Candida drimydis
- Candida dubliniensis
- Candida edax
- Candida entomophila
- Candida ergastensis
- Candida ernobii
- Candida ethanolica
- Candida euphorbiae
Pichia euphorbiae is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida euphorbiiphila
Pichia euphorbiiphila is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida fabianii
Pichia fabianii is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida famata
Notes: The variety flareri was made by Nakase & Suzuki in 1985. This automatically created var. famata to refer to the original species.
Torulopsis candida is an obsolete synonym of this species.
- Candida famata var. famata
- Candida famata var. flareri
- Candida fennica
- Candida fermenticarens
- Candida fibrae (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of Hyphopichia burtonii
- Candida firmetaria
This species is a synonym of the obsolete species C. lambica
- Candida floricola
- Candida fluviatilis
- Candida freyschussii
- Candida friedrichii
- Candida fructus
- Candida galacta
- Candida geochares
- Candida glabrata
Notes: The yeast known as Torulopsis glabrata was not orginally included in the genus Candida because it neither developed pseudohyphae nor true hyphae. Pseudohyphae and true hyphae have been traditional characteristics used by yeast taxonomists to help classify yeasts. Specifically, the genus Torulopsis was defined to include yeast that lacked pseudohyphae whereas Candida species were defined to produce them. However, induction of pseudohyphae sometimes requires special efforts: for example, C. guilliermondii do not routinely produced pseudohyphae unless they are grown on a medium such as yeast morphology agar. However, even on special media T. glabrata never produced pseudohyphae.
Thus, this species was long held to belong to the genus Torulopsis. However, the application of various molecular approaches for classifying yeasts and the fact that the presence of morphological characters like pseudohyphae can be highly variable, it was later concluded that the presence or absence of pseudohyphae was not a sound character to separate the genera Torulopsis and Candida. As a result of this conclusion, T. glabrata was transferred to the genus Candida as C. glabrata.
Cryptococcus glabratus is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Torulopsis glabrata is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Torulopsis stercoralis is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Candida glaebosa
- Candida glucosophila
- Candida gropengiesseri
- Candida guilliermondii
Notes: This species has two varieties, var. guilliermondii and var. membranaefaciens. Although associated with different teleomorphs, commercial identification systems do not usually separate these two anamorphic varieties.
C. melibiosi is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Trichosporon appendiculare is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Candida guilliermondii var. guilliermondii
Pichia guilliermondii is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida guilliermondii var. membranaefaciens
Pichia ohmeri is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida haemulonii
Torulopsis haemulonii is an obsolete synonym of this species.
- Candida homilentoma
- Candida humicola (obsolete)
Notes: See note at Cryptococcus humicolus
This obsolete species is a synonym of Cryptococcus humicolus
- Candida humilis
- Candida hydrocarbofumarica (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. blankii
- Candida incommunis
- Candida inconspicua
- Candida insectalens
- Candida insectamans
- Candida insectorum
- Candida intermedia
- Candida ishiwadae
- Candida javanica (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of Pichia anomala
- Candida karawaiewii
- Candida kefyr
C. pseudotropicalis is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Kluyveromyces marxianus is a teleomorph of this species. - Candida krissii
- Candida kruisii
- Candida krusei
C. castellani is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Issatchenkia orientalis is a teleomorph of this species.
Saccharomyces krusei is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Candida lactis-condensi
- Candida lambica (obsolete)
C. firmetaria is a synonym of this obsolete species.
Pichia fermentans is a teleomorph of this obsolete species. - Candida langeroni (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. albicans
- Candida laureliae
- Candida lipolytica
C. paralipolytica is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Yarrowia lipolytica is a teleomorph of this species. - Candida llanquihuensis
- Candida lodderae
- Candida lusitaniae
C. parapsilosis var. obtusa is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Clavispora lusitaniae is a teleomorph of this species. - Candida lyxosophila
- Candida magnoliae
- Candida maltosa
- Candida maris
- Candida maritima
- Candida melibiosi (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. guilliermondii
- Candida melibiosica
- Candida membranifaciens
- Candida mesenterica
- Candida methanosorbosa
- Candida milleri
- Candida mogii
- Candida montana
- Candida multigemmis
- Candida musae
- Candida naeodendra
- Candida natalensis
- Candida nemodendra
- Candida norvegensis
Pichia norvegensis is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida norvegica
- Candida odintsovae
- Candida oleophila
- Candida oregonensis
- Candida ovalis
- Candida palmioleophila
- Candida paludigena
- Candida paralipolytica (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. lipolytica
- Candida parapsilosis
Monilia parapsilosis is an obsolete synonym of this species.
- Candida parapsilosis var. obtusa (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. lusitaniae
- Candida pararugosa
- Candida paratropicalis (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. tropicalis
- Candida pelliculosa
Pichia anomala is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida peltata
- Candida petrohuensis
- Candida pignaliae
- Candida pini
- Candida populi
- Candida pseudointermedia
- Candida pseudolambica
- Candida pseudotropicalis (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. kefyr
- Candida psychrophila
- Candida pulcherrima
- Candida quercitrusa
- Candida quercuum
- Candida railenensis
- Candida reukaufii
- Candida rhagii
- Candida robusta
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a teleomorph of this species.
- Candida rugopelliculosa
- Candida rugosa
Monilia rugosa is an obsolete synonym of this species.
- Candida saitoana
- Candida sake
- Candida salida
- Candida salmanticensis
- Candida santamariae
- Candida santjacobensis
- Candida savonica
- Candida schatavii
- Candida sequanensis
- Candida shehatae
- Candida shehatae var. Insectosa
- Candida shehatae var. lignosa
- Candida shehatae var. shehatae
- Candida silvae
- Candida silvanorum
- Candida silvatica
- Candida silvicultrix
- Candida solani
- Candida sonorensis
- Candida sophiae-reginae
- Candida sorbophila
- Candida sorbosa
- Candida sorboxylosa
- Candida spandovensis
- Candida stellata
- Candida stellatoidea (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. albicans
- Candida succiphila
- Candida suecica
- Candida tanzawaensis
- Candida tapae
- Candida techellsii
- Candida tenuis
- Candida torresii
- Candida tropicalis
C. paratropicalis is an obsolete synonym of this species.
C. vulgaris is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Monilia tropicalis is an obsolete synonym of this species. - Candida tsuchiyae
- Candida utilis
Pichia jadinii is a synonym of this species.
- Candida vaccinii
- Candida valdiviana
- Candida valida
- Candida vanderwaltii
- Candida variabilis (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of Hyphopichia burtonii
- Candida vartiovaarae
- Candida versatilis
- Candida vinaria (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. zeylanoides
- Candida vini
- Candida viswanathii
- Candida vulgaris (obsolete)
This obsolete species is a synonym of C. tropicalis
- Candida wickerhamii
- Candida xestobii
- Candida zeylanoides
C. vinaria is an obsolete synonym of this species.
Monilia zeylanoides is an obsolete synonym of this species.