Isolation of Keratinophilic and Other Fungi from Soils Collected in Australia and New Guinea

Abstract

Additional information is presented on 6 fungi isolated by the hair-bait technique from soil. Microsporum canis was isolated from 1 of 147 samples of back-yard or garden soil and the Chrysosporium state of Arthroderma tuberculatum from 1 of 24 samples taken from fowl yards. Entomophthora coronata was isolated from a soil sample collected from a beach near Sydney and from straw collected from a fowl yard; Anixiopsis stercoraria from a soil sample collected in southern Australia; Curvularia lunata from 2 soil samples collected in western Australia; Chrysosporium sp. was isolated from New Guinea (4 samples), Victoria (5 samples), southern Australia (7 samples), Queensland (11 samples), western Australia (2 samples), New South Wales (15 samples). The salient features of these fungi are described and lllustrated.