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. 2021 Aug 10;9(8):1695. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9081695

Table 3.

List of the main marine fungi hydrocarbon degraders.

Species Location Compounds Ref.
Aspergillus sydowii NIOSN-SK56C42 Deep sea sediment
(Arabian sea)
Crude oil, alkanes [145]
Acremonium sclerotigenum NIOSN-M109 Mangrove sediment
(Panaji, Goa)
Penicillium citrinum NIOSN-M126 Mangrove sediment
(Panaji, Goa)
Aspergillusflavus NIOSN-SK56S22 Deep sea
(Arabian sea)
Penicillium polonicum Marine sediments
(Port of Oran, Algeria)
Crude oil [146]
Penicillium cyclopium
Penicillium mononematosum
Penicillium chrysogenum
Aureobasidium sp. Deep sea oil reserves
(Gulf of Mexico)
hexadecane and 1-hexadecene [147]
P. brevicompactum
Phialocephala sp.
Penicillium sp.
Cladosporium sp. 1, 2
C. gracilis
Aspergillus sclerotiorum CBMAI 849 Coastal Atlantic Ocean
(São Paulo, Brazil)
pyrene and benzo[a]pyrene [148]
Mucor racemosus CBMAI 847
Tinctoporellus sp. CBMAI1061 Marine sponges
(Dragmacidonreticulatum and Amphimedon viridis)
PAHs, Pyrene [149]