Three interesting fungi from American bullfrog larvae (Rana catesbeiana) in Yunnan, China Author Yang, Erfu 0000-0003-2385-6402 Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, People’s Republic of China & Master of Science Program in Applied Microbiology (International Program), Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand & erfu 20170431 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2385 - 6402 erfu20170431@gmail.com Author Lu, Wenhua 0000-0001-7283-7596 Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, People’s Republic of China & reuven 0319 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7283 - 7596 reuven0319@gmail.com Author Tibpromma, Saowaluck 0000-0002-4706-6547 Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, People’s Republic of China & saowaluckfai @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4706 - 6547 saowaluckfai@gmail.com Author Dai, Dongqin 0000-0001-8935-8807 Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, People’s Republic of China & cicidaidongqin @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8935 - 8807 cicidaidongqin@gmail.com Author Gao, Ying 0000-0001-8671-1978 Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand & gaoying @ mail. kib. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8671 - 1978 gaoying@mail.kib.ac.cn Author Promputtha, Itthayakorn 0000-0003-3376-4376 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand & itthayakorn. p @ cmu. ac. th; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3376 - 4376 itthayakorn.p@cmu.ac.th Author Karunarathna, Samantha C. 0000-0001-7080-0781 Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, People’s Republic of China & National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS), Sri Lanka & samanthakarunarathna @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7080 - 0781 samanthakarunarathna@gmail.com text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-03-16 587 3 251 268 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.587.3.4 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.587.3.4 3039d03d-f59e-4e59-87de-3d923e8f5fff 1179-3163 7744408 Sordaria Ces. & De Not. , Commentario della Società Crittogamologica Italiana 1 (4): 225 (1863) Index Fungorum number: IF 5061 Type species: Sordaria fimicola (Roberge ex Desm.) Ces. & De Not., Commentario della Società Crittogamologica Italiana 1 (4): 226 (1863) Notes : Sordaria was introduced with the type species S. fimicola , and 264 records are listed in Index Fungorum (2023), but only 23 species have available sequence data ( Huang et al. 2021 ). The sexual morph of Sordaria was characterized by having sub-immersed to superficial, perithecioid, coriaceous ascomata, contain with cylindrical paraphyses, oblong, upright to slightly curved asci, with a lobate pedicel and distinct apical ring, with eight-spored, uniseriate, ellipsoidal to ovoid, verruculose ascospore, immature ascospore enclosed in a hyaline gelatinous sheath, however, sometimes thick and conspicuous to even difficult to detect ( Ivanová et al. 2015 ; Phukhamsakda et al. 2020 ). Species of Sordaria are commonly found in dung, soil, and seed pods ( Furtado 1969 ; Watanabe 1989 ; Mungai et al. 2012 ). Notably, the filamentous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora was considered a model organism to study the molecular mechanisms that regulate fruiting bodies’ development ( Teichert et al. 2020 ).