Phaffomyces

Phaffomyces
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Saccharomycetes
Order:	Saccharomycetales
Family:	Pichiaceae
Genus:	Phaffomyces; Y. Yamada
Type species
	Phaffomyces opuntiae; (Starmer, Phaff, M. Miranda, M.W. Mill. & J.S.F. Barker) Y. Yamada
Species
	See text

Phaffomyces is a genus of fungi within the Saccharomycetales order.^[1] It is placed within the Pichiaceae fungi family.^[2]

The genus name of Phaffomyces is in honour of Herman Jan Phaff (1913–2001),^[3] who was a scientist who specialised in the ecology of yeast.^[4]

The genus was circumscribed by Yuzo Yamada in Bull. Fac. Agric. Shizuoka Univ. vol.47 on page 30 in 1997.

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^ "Phaffomyces Y.Yamada, 1997". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^ Phaff, H. J. (1986). "My Life With Yeasts". Annual Review of Microbiology. 40: 1–28. doi:10.1146/annurev.mi.40.100186.000245. PMID 3535641.
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.