Updates on the classification and numbers of marine fungi Author Calabon, Mark S. Author Jones, E. B. Gareth Author Pang, Ka-Lai Author Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed A. Author Jin, Jing Author Devadatha, Bandarupalli Author Sadaba, Resurreccion B. Author Apurillo, Carlo Chris Author Hyde, Kevin D. text Botanica Marina 2023 Warsaw, Poland 2023-07-21 66 4 213 238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0032 journal article 10.1515/bot-2023-0032 1437-4323 11000251 2.3.13 Saccotheciaceae Jones et al. (2019) referred Aureobasidium pullulans (collected in the marine environment) to the family Dothioraceae , while Thambugala et al. (2014) included it in the new family Aureobasidiaceae , a family already introduced by Ciferri (1958) . However, an earlier name for Aureobasidiaceae is Saccotheciaceae , established by Bonorden (1864) to accommodate Saccothecium , and is considered as a distinct family in Dothidelaes. Saccotheciaceae can be distinguished from Dothideaceae by immersed to erumpent, uniloculate ascostromata and aseptate to multi-septate, hyaline ascospores ( Hongsanan et al. 2020a ). Currently seven genera are accepted in Saccotheciaceae with three marine species: Aureobasidium leucospermi , A. pullulans , and A. melanogenum .