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2026

1. Bagacay JFE, Candole GM, Velo JC, Sara FR, Siccio MA, Opiña LA, Jones EBG, Calabon MS (2026) Three novel aquatic species of Distoseptispora (Distoseptisporaceae, Distoseptisporales) from the Philippines, with a new geographic record for D. septata. MycoKeys 137:103–137. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.198252
2. Nguyen, T. T. T., Song, D. Y., Kim, S. J., Oh, B. S., Kim, M. K., Kang, K. H., … Lee, H. B. (2026). Revealing the Hidden Diversity of Aquatic and Terrestrial Fungi in Korea: 17 Newly Recorded Species. Mycobiology, 54(1), 178–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/12298093.2026.2612803
3. Rakshit, S., Chanda, P. & Sarma, V.V. (2026) Pseudoastrosphaeriellopsis mangrovei sp. nov. (Pleosporales, Pseudoastrosphaeriellaceae) a novel marine fungal species from Indian Mangroves. Phytotaxa 744 (2): 139–154. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.744.2.3
4. Furbino, L.E., Godinho, V.M., Santiago, I.F. et al. Diversity Patterns, Ecology and Biological Activities of Fungal Communities Associated with the Endemic Macroalgae Across the Antarctic Peninsula. Microb Ecol 67, 775–787 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-014-0374-9
5. Guo, R., Song, Y., Xu, W. et al. Fungal diversity associated with Ulva pertusa and its response to cAMP and light. J. Ocean. Limnol. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-025-5143-8

6. Bakhit M.S. Introducing Juncigena alexandrina sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Juncigenaceae) from the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, based on morphology and multi-locus phylogeny. BMC Microbiol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-026-04825-y

7. Ou XY, Wang QZ, Huang SS, Li YZ, Yang L, Luo YN, Wang SJ, Liang M, Pan LX, Liu B and Yang DF (2026) Dual defense mechanisms from a novel marine fungus Nigrograna chlamydospora sp. nov. B143: antifungal and anti-aflatoxigenic properties against Aspergillus flavus. Front. Microbiol. 17:1801199. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1801199

8. Xue S, Liu J, Zhao F, Zhang X, Zhu Z, Zhang J. 2024. Spatio-temporal distribution and biotechnological potential of culturable yeasts in the intertidal sediments and seawater of Aoshan Bay, China. Appl Environ Microbiol 90:e01570-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01570-24

9. Martínez-Rodrigo A, Núñez A, Franco A, Madrid M, Vicente-Soler J, Cansado J, Soto T (2026) Unveiling the diversity, ecology, and biotechnological potential of culturable marine yeasts in Western Mediterranean coastal ecosystems. IMA Fungus 17: e182209. https://doi.org/10.3897/imafungus.17.182209

10. OLSON RE, TIEKOTTER KL, RENO PW (1994) Nadelspora canceri N. G., N. Sp., an Unusual Microsporidian Parasite of the Dungeness Crab, Cancer Magister. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 41:349–359. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1994.tb06089.x
11. Hussain S, Zhou H, Ali I, Jing J, Li S (2026) Microbial-driven nitrogen cycle in coastal wetlands: Biodiversity, threats, and restoration strategies. Microbiol Res 311:128563. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2026.128563
12. Burgaud G, Henry N, Corre E, Pujo-Pay M, Conan P, Hingant M, Meistertzheim A-L, Barbe V, Paul-Pont I, ter Halle A, Eyheraguibel B, Ludwig W, Kedzierski M, Briand J-F, Siano R, Meyneng M, Lepère C, Ghiglione J-F (2026) A comprehensive pan-European exploration of fungal plastisphere dynamics along river-to-sea continuums. J Hazard Mater 514:142613. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2026.142613
13. Olguin J, Solís-Weiss V, Ponce-Vélez G, Botello A v, Figueroa M, Walker AK, Velez P (2026) Assessment of the metabolic potential and transformation of aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by marine fungi from Mexican coastal and deep-sea environments. Mar Environ Res 220:108161. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.108161
14. da Silveira Bastos IMA, Cardoso MS, Laux M, Ribeiro RR, García GJY, Bahia PA, de Sousa PMV, Alves BGT, de Rezende DHC, Rosado AS, Bezerra JDP, Landell MF, Melo VMM, Tavares TCL, Góes-Neto A (2026) Worldwide diversity and ecology of mangrove fungi: a systematic review of ITS metabarcoding studies and a quantitative, integrative analysis of raw sequence data. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 42:352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-026-05065-y
15. Núria Pou-Solà, Kensuke Seto, Alan Denis Fernández-Valero, Jordina Gordi, Esther Garcés, Albert Reñé, Maiko Kagami. Algophthora mediterranea, gen. et sp. nov.: Novel dinoflagellate- and diatom-infecting generalist marine chytrid from the Mediterranean Sea. Mycologia, 2025; 118 (1): 10 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2025.2577604
16. Nzube Ruth Amaeze, Alvan Chimere Okechukwu, Hammed Bisiriyu, Overcomer Abumonye Ekweli, Blessing Umeokoli, 2026 Marine endophytic fungi from mangroves: Chemical diversity, biosynthetic pathways, and therapeutic potential, Scientific African, 31: e03123, ISSN 2468-2276, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2025.e03123
17. Legorreta-Castañeda, A.J., Guerra-Sánchez, G., García-Gutiérrez, K., Hernández-Fernández, M.E., Cervantes-Camacho, C., Burrola-Aguilar, C. and Olicón-Hernández, D.R. (2026), Amylase production by Halobyssothecium cf. unicellulare under submerged and solid state fermentation: biotechnological potential of a thermotolerant aquatic isolate. J Chem Technol Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.70137
18. Amend, A.S., N. Gunde-Cimerman, M.A. Coelho, C.A. Durkin, C. Ettinger, H. Gifford, A.S. Gladfelter, C. Gostinčar, L. Granit, I. Grigoriev, M.H. Gutiérrez, K.J.E. Hickman, T.Y. James, A.C. Jones, R. Levi, M. David-Palma, X. Peng, C.A. Quandt, T. Rämä, L. Vargas-Gastélum, S. Whitner, A. Williams, O. Yarden, A. Yenewodage, and G. Zahn. 2025. Ten pressing questions (and answers) about marine fungi and opportunities for collaborations in the ocean sciences. Oceanography 38(4), https://doi.org/10.5670/2025.e402
19. Mungyeong Gwon, Dae-Won Ki, Dae-Cheol Choi, Ji-Yul Kim, Won-Gi Seo, Yongkuk Lee, In-Kyoung Lee, Bong-Sik Yun,Chemical constituents of culture broth of the marine-derived fungus Towyspora aestuari and their antioxidant activity, Phytochemistry Letters,Volume 70,2025,104080,ISSN 1874-3900, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytol.2025.104080
20. Tennakoon, D.S.; de Silva, N.I.; Xie, N.; Hongsanan, S. Global Diversity, Host Associations, and New Insights into Aigialaceae, Astrosphaeriellaceae, and Pseudoastrosphaeriellaceae. J. Fungi 2025, 11, 834. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11120834
21. Huo, R., Tu, Y., Liu, C., Zi, G., Shi, Y., Ren, J., … Liu, L. (2025). New antifungal chlorinated orsellinic aldehydes from the deep-sea-derived fungus Acremonium sclerotigenum Mycology, 16(4), 1797–1806. https://doi.org/10.1080/21501203.2025.2485477
22. Bassey, I. N., Enyiukwu, D. N., Toby, A. T., Osa, I. E. & Nneke, N. E. Water Quality and Associated Aquatic Fungi in Selected Wetland Ecosystems in Southern Nigeria: Potential Implications for Food Safety and Public Health. Eur J Biol. 2025; 84(2): 149-159. DOI: 10.26650/EurJBiol.2025.1638504
23. Hongrui Wu, Qingqiang Chen, Jiazuo Song, Soil fungal distribution and environmental drivers in reclaimed salt marshes of the Yangtze River estuary, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 218, 2026,106752, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106752
24. Zhang J-Y, Hyde KD, Yang M-F, Sun Y-R, Xiao X-J, Meng Z-B, Bao D-F, Lu Y-Z (2025) Discoveries of Dothideomycetes (Fungi) associated with pteridophytes in China. IMA Fungus 16: e167717. https://doi.org/10.3897/imafungus.16.167717
25. Nesterenko, L.E.; Yurchenko, E.A.; Zhuravleva, O.I.; Oleinikova, G.K.; Kirichuk, N.N.; Popov, R.S.; Chausova, V.E.; Drozdov, K.A.; Chingizova, E.A.; Isaeva, M.P.; et al. Cytotoxic Curvalarol C and Other Compounds from Marine Fungus Asteromyces cruciatus KMM 4696. Molecules 2025, 30, 4772. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30244772
26. Tennakoon, D.S.; de Silva, N.I.; Xie, N.; Hongsanan, S. Global Diversity, Host Associations, and New Insights into Aigialaceae, Astrosphaeriellaceae, and Pseudoastrosphaeriellaceae. J. Fungi 2025, 11, 834. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11120834
27. Angélica Olivier Bernardi, Juliana Copetti Fracari, Pâmela Oliveira Soares, Luciane Vieira Borges Gós, Paula Fernanda Pinto da Costa, Ana Flávia Furian, Marina Venturini Copetti, Effect of culture medium composition, incubation time, and temperature on the biofilm-forming ability of Aspergillus westerdijkiae, Food Research International, 226, 2026, 118171, ISSN 0963-9969, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2025.118171.
28. Zhao, Z., Klawonn, I., Baltar, F. et al. Size-fractionated fungal communities in the sunlit ocean. Commun Biol 9, 47 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09314-y
29. Osei SA, Dandi SO, Alhassan EH, Atindana SA (2025) Marine Fungi in Coral Reefs: Interactions and Ecological Significance. Marine Ecology 46. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.70070

30. Chen, K., Mao, L., Li, K., & Zhang, C. (2025). Exploring the dominant endophytic pleosporalean fungi in Poaceae plants: taxonomic novelties within the suborder Massarineae. Mycology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/21501203.2025.2569933

31. Fryar, S.C. & Catcheside, D.E. (2025) A new family of freshwater ascomycetes from Australia: Rivulataceae fam. nov., Rivulatus australiensis gen. et. sp. nov. (Diaporthomycetidae). Phytotaxa 732 (1): 21–34. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.732.1.2

32. Pratibha, J., Bhat, D.J., Dawoud, T.M. & Ashish, P. (2025) Parasynnemellisia khasiana gen. et sp. nov. (Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales), on bamboo litter, from Meghalaya, India. Phytotaxa 732 (1): 67–75. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.732.1.6

33. Mungyeong Gwon, Dae-Won Ki, Dae-Cheol Choi, Ji-Yul Kim, Won-Gi Seo, Yongkuk Lee, In-Kyoung Lee, Bong-Sik Yun,Chemical constituents of culture broth of the marine-derived fungus Towyspora aestuari and their antioxidant activity, Phytochemistry Letters,Volume 70,2025,104080,ISSN 1874-3900, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytol.2025.104080 

34. Kuo, CH., Hsieh, SY. & Goh, TK. Conlarioidea gen. nov.: a new monodictys-like genus with three cryptic species from Taiwan, revealed by phylogenetics and morphology. Mycol Progress 24, 85 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-025-02103-1

2025

1. Hodhod, M.S., Bendary, H.A., El-Ashmony, M.M. et al. Unveiling the Metabolites and Biological Characteristics of Swampomyces armeniacus from Red Sea Mangroves Ecosystems. Curr Microbiol 82, 558 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-025-04423-7

2. Schultz J, Altalhi S, Zwan FMvd, Augustin N and Rosado AS (2025) Diving into the deep: fungal diversity in the newly discovered hydrothermal vents of Hatiba Mons, Red Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1649339. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1649339

3. Ji-Won Kim, Yun-Jeong Kim & Ahn-Heum Eom (2025) Morphological and Phylogenetic Characterization of Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Brown Algae (Phaeophyceae) in Korea, Mycobiology, 53:5, 620-628, DOI: 10.1080/12298093.2025.2535776

4. Xuefeng Peng and David L. Valentine 2025 Expanded genetic and functional diversity of oceanic fungi. e Microbiome (2025) 13:179 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-025-02162-2

5. Apurillo CCS, Phukhamsakda C, Hyde KD, Thiyagaraja V, Jones EBG 2025 –  New fungal genus, three novel species and one new record from mangroves, with reclassification of Melanconiella (Melanconiellaceae) species. MycoKeys 116: 25–52. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.116.137351

6. Dayarathne MC, Jones EBG, Rämä T, Hagestad OC, Abdel-Wahab MA, Bahkali AH, Prematunga C, Azevedo E, Hyde KD, Caeiro MF, Barata M, Sarma VV, Devadatha B, Guo SY, Sakayaroj J, Pang KL 2024 – Towards an integrative morpho-molecular classification of the Lulworthiomycetidae. Mycosphere 16(1), 79–168, DOI: 10.5943/mycosphere/16/1/2

7. Safi, A., Mehrabi-Koushki, M. & Arzanlou, M. 2025 – New species of Neocamarosporium from two halophyte plants in Iran. Phytotaxa 696 (2): 101–116.

2024

1. Correia P, Azevedo E, Caeiro MF. Correction: Correia et al. Redefining the Genus Corollospora Based on Morphological and Phylogenetic Approaches. J. Fungi 2023, 9, 841. 2024. Journal of Fungi10(1):39. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof10010039

2. Selvarajan  R, Sibanda T, Ullah H, Abia ALK (2024) Beach sand mycobiome: The silent threat of pathogenic fungi and toxic metal contamination for beachgoers. Marine Pollution Bulletin 198, 115895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115895

3. Myovela, H., Hussein, J. & Tibuhwa, D. The hidden diversity of mangrove endophytic fungi from Tanzania: insights from a preliminary study. Biologia 79, 669–683 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01587-0

4. Zhang ZF, Liu F, Liu LR, Li M, Cai L, Liu S, Mao J. (2024) Culturing the uncultured marine fungi in the omics age: Opportunities and challenges, Fungal Biology Reviews, 48, 100353, ISSN 1749-4613, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbr.2023.100353

5. Zeng K, Guo J, Huang X, He C, Guo J, Chen H, Wang Y, Xin G (2024) Distribution patterns of endophytic fungi in different intertidal plant communities within a tropical mangrove forest in South China. Rhizosphere 29, 100829. doi: 10.1016/j.rhisph.2023.100829

6. Fernández-Valero AD, Karpov SA, Sampedro N, Gordi J, Timoneda N, Garcés E, Reñé A. 2024. Newly identified diversity of Dinomycetaceae (Rhizophydiales, Chytridiomycota), a family of fungal parasites of marine dinoflagellates. European Journal of Protistology. 93:126053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2024.126053
7. Barnés-Guirado M, Stchigel AM, Cano-Lira JF. 2024. A New Genus of the Microascaceae (Ascomycota) Family from a Hypersaline Lagoon in Spain and the Delimitation of the Genus Wardomyces. J Fungi (Basel). 10(4):236. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jof10040236.

8. Guerra-Mateo D, Cano-Lira JF, Fernández-Bravo A, Gené J. 2024. Sunken Riches: Ascomycete Diversity in the Western Mediterranean Coast through Direct Plating and Flocculation, and Description of Four New Taxa. JoF. 10(4):281. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof10040281

9. da Silva, P. R., & Gusmão, L. F. P. 2024. New species and new records of aquatic asexual ascomycetes from estuarine beaches of the Brazilian Amazon. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2024.2319729.

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