Rafael Felipe Castañeda Ruiz (26 May 1951 – ), Cuban mycologist and microbiologist. Expert on Taxonomy of Anamorphic fungi. Described more than 600 new species of microfungi.

IPNI standard form: R.F.Castañeda

Address from 1983 publication:

Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical "Alejandro de Humboldt" (INIFAT) Calle 1 esq. 2, Santiago de las Vegas, Ciudad Habana, Cuba. CP. 17200

Taxon names authored

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• 11 taxon names authored by Rafael Felipe Castañeda Ruiz

Publications

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• Castañeda Ruiz, R.F., Guarro, J. & Cano, J. 1996. Notes on conidial fungi. III. An interesting species of Polyschema from Cuba. Mycotaxon: The International Journal of Fungal Taxonomy and Nomenclature 57: 451–456. Cyberliber Reference page. 
• Wijayawardene, N.N., Hyde, K.D., Rajeshkumar, K.C., Hawksworth, D.L., Madrid, H., Kirk, P.M., Braun, U., Singh, R.V., Crous, P.W., Kukwa, M., Lücking, R., Kurtzman, C.P., Yurkov, A.M., Haelewaters, D., Aptroot, A., Lumbsch, H.T., Timdal, E., Ertz, D., Etayo, J., Phillips, A.J.L., Groenewald, J.Z., Papizadeh, M., Selbmann, L., Dayarathne, M.C., Weerakoon, G., Jones, E.B.G., Suetrong, S., Tian, Q., Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F., Bahkali, A.H., Pang, K.L., Tanaka, K., Dai, D.Q., Sakayaroj, J., Hujslová, M., Lombard, L., Shenoy, B.D., Suija, A., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N., Thambugala, K.M., Wanasinghe, D.N., Sharma, B.O., Gaikwad, S., Pandit, G., Zucconi, L., Onofri, S., Egidi, E., Raja, H.A., Kodsueb, R., Caceres, M.E.S., Pérez-Ortega, S., Fiuza, P.O., Monteiro, J.S., Vasilyeva, L.N., Shivas, R.G., Prieto, M., Wedin, M., Olariaga, I., Lateef, A.A., Agrawal, Y., Fazeli, S.A.S., Amoozegar, M.A., Zhao, G.Z., Pfliegler, W.P., Sharma, G., Oset, M., Abdel-Wahab, M.A., Takamatsu, S., Bensch, K., de Silva, N.I., De Kesel, A., Karunarathna, A., Boonmee, S., Pfister, D.H., Lu, Y.Z., Luo, Z.L., Boonyuen, N., Daranagama, D.A., Senanayake, I.C., Jayasiri, S.C., Samarakoon, M.C., Zeng, X.Y., Doilom, M., Quijada, L., Rampadarath, S., Heredia, G., Dissanayake, A.J., Jayawardana, R.S., Perera, R.H., Tang, L.Z., Phukhamsakda, C., Hernández-Restrepo, M., Ma, X., Tibpromma, S., Gusmao, L.F.P., Weerahewa, D., Karunarathna, S.C. 2017. Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86(1): 1–594. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-017-0386-0 RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Xu, Z.-H., Zhang, K., Zhang, X.-G., Castañeda-Ruíz, R.F. & Ma, J. 2019. Cacumisporium fusiforme sp. nov. from Jiangxi, China. Mycotaxon: The International Journal of Fungal Taxonomy & Nomenclature 134(2): 275–279. DOI: 10.5248/134.275 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Heredia, G., Li, D.W., Wendt, L., Réblová, M., Arias, R.M., Gamboa-Angulo, M., Štěpánek, V., Stadler, M. & Castañeda-Ruíz, R.F. 2020. Natonodosa speciosa gen. et sp. nov. and rediscovery of Poroisariopsis inornata: neotropical anamorphic fungi in Xylariales. Mycological Progress 19(1): 15–30. DOI: 10.1007/s11557-019-01537-8 Reference page. 
• Wijayawardene, N.N., Hyde, K.D., Al-Ani, L.K.T., Tedersoo, L., Haelewaters, D., Rajeshkumar, K.C., Zhao, R.-L., Aptroot, A., Leontyev, D.V., Saxena, R.K., Tokarev, Y.S., Dai, D.-Q., Letcher, P.M., Stephenson, S.L., Ertz, D., Lumbsch, H.T., Kukwa, M., Issi, I.V., Madrid, H., Phillips, A.J.L., Selbmann, L., Pfliegler, W.P., Horváth, E., Bensch, K., Kirk, P.M., Kolaříková, Z., Raja, H.A., Radek, R., Papp, V., Dima, B., Ma, J., Malosso, E., Takamatsu, S., Rambold, G., Gannibal, P.B., Triebel, D., Gautam, A.K., Avasthi, S., Suetrong, S., Timdal, E., Fryar, S.C., Delgado, G., Réblová, M., Doilom, M., Dolatabadi, S., Pawłowska, J., Humber, R.A., Kodsueb, R., Sánchez-Castro, I., Goto, B.T., da Silva, D.K.A., de Souza, F.A., Oehl, F., da Silva, G.A., da Silva, I.R., Błaszkowski, J., Jobim, K., Maia, L.C., Barbosa, F.R., Fiuza, P.O., Divakar, P.K., Shenoy, B.D., Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F., Somrithipol, S., Lateef, A.A., Karunarathna, S.C., Tibpromma, S., Mortimer, P.E., Wanasinghe, D.N., Phookamsak, R., Xu, J.-C., Wang, Y., Tian, F.-H., Alvarado, P., Li, D.-W., Kušan, I., Matočec, N., Mešić, A., Tkalčec, Z., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N., Papizadeh, M., Heredia, G., Wartchow, F., Bakhshi, M., Boehm, E., Youssef, N., Hustad, V.P., Lawrey, J.D., Santiago, A.L.C.M.A., Bezerra, J.D.P., Souza-Motta, C.M., Firmino, A.L., Tian, Q., Houbraken, J., Hongsanan, S., Tanaka, K., Dissanayake, A.J., Monteiro, J.S., Grossart, H.-P., Suija, A., Weerakoon, G., Etayo, J., Tsurykau, A., Vázquez, V., Mungai, P., Damm, U., Li, Q.-R., Zhang, H., Boonmee, S., Lu, Y.-Z., Becerra, A.G., Kendrick, B., Brearley, F.Q., Motiejūnaitė, J., Sharma, B., Khare, R., Gaikwad, S., Wijesundara, D.S.A., Tang, L.-Z., He, M.-Q., Flakus, A.G., Rodriguez-Flakus, P., Zhurbenko, M.P., McKenzie, E.H.C., Stadler, M., Bhat, D.J., Liu, J.-K., Raza, M., Jeewon, R., Nassonova, E.S., Prieto, M., Udeni Jayalal, R.G.U., Erdoğdu, M., Yurkov, A.M., Schnittler, M., Shchepin, O.N., Novozhilov, Y.K., Silva-Filho, A.G.S., Gentekaki, E., Liu, P., Cavender, J.C., Kang, Y.-Q., Sohrabi, M., Zhang, L.-F., Xu, R.-F., Li, Y.-M., Dayarathne, M.C., Ekanayaka, A.H., Wen, T.-C., Deng, C.-Y., Pereira, O.L., Navathe, S., Hawksworth, D.L., Fan, X.-L., Dissanayake, L.S., Kuhnert, E., Grossart, H.-P., Thines, M. 2020. Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 11(1): 1060–1456. DOI: 10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8 . Reference page. 
• Qiao, M., Zheng, H., Guo, J.-S., Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F., Xu, J.-P., Peng, J., Zhang, K.-Q. & Yu, Z.-F. 2021. Two new asexual genera and six new asexual species in the family Microthyriaceae (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) from China. MycoKeys 85: 1–30. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.85.70829 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Zhang, K., Guo, W.-H., Li, D.-W. & Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F. 2021. Vanakripa chinensis sp. nov. from China and notes on the genus. Mycotaxon: The International Journal of Fungal Taxonomy & Nomenclature 136(3): 545–551. DOI: 10.5248/136.545 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Zhang, K., Guo, W.-H., Heredia, G., Delgado-Zúñiga, J.P., Ma, J. & Castañeda-Ruíz, R.F. 2020. Anasporidesmiella gen. nov. for an atypical Sporidesmiella species and for A. manifesta sp. nov. Mycotaxon: The International Journal of Fungal Taxonomy & Nomenclature 135(4): 719–727. DOI: 10.5248/135.719 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Xu, Z.-H., Sun, W.-X., Shi, X.-G., Zhang, X.-G., Xia, J.-W., Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F. & Ma, J. 2021. Camposporium chinense sp. nov. from Jiangxi, China. Mycotaxon: The International Journal of Fungal Taxonomy & Nomenclature 136(1): 73–78. DOI: 10.5248/136.73 . ResearchGate . Reference page.