Abstract
Three new species of Rotiferophthora ( R. minutispora, R. amamiensis and R. lacrima ) were isolated from samples of soil, rabbit dung and farmland waste in Japan. All species infected bdelloid rotifers and produced dictyochlamydospores in addition to conidia, but their modes of conidiogenesis differed. R. minutispora had small spherical conidia and long tapered conidiogenous cells which formed in verticils around the conidiophores; R. amamiensis had ovoid conidia produced from flask-shaped conidiogenous cells and aphanophialides, and R. lacrima produced long tear-shaped conidia enveloped in a mucoid sheath from short conidiogenous cells produced in a Drechmeria -like formation. A summary table of all known species of Rotiferophthora is shown.
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