Halosphaeriaceae

Halosphaeriaceae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Microascales
Family: Halosphaeriaceae
E.Müll. & Arx ex Kohlm. (1972)
Type genus
Halosphaeria
Linder (1944)

The Halosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the Sordariomycetes class, subclass Hypocreomycetidae. Halosphaeriaceae is the family with the largest number of marine fungi with a few species are from freshwater and terrestrial habitats (Jones et al. 2009, 2015, 2017, 2019; Hyde et al. 2020a).

As of 2015, it had 141 species distributed among 59 genera, that had increased to 64 genera in 2020.