Verrucaria
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| Verrucaria nigrescens, Schwäbische Alb, Germany | |
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| Genus: | Verrucaria Shrad. (1794)
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| Verrucaria rupestris Shrad. (1794)
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Verrucaria is a genus of fungi in the family Verrucariaceae.[1]
Species
Species include:-[2]
- Verrucaria aethiobola
- Verrucaria amphibia
- Verrucaria aquatilis
- Verrucaria aspiciliicola
- Verrucaria baldensis Massal
- Verrucaria bryoctona
- Verrucaria ditmarsica
- Verrucaria dolosa
- Verrucaria dufourii
- Verrucaria elaeomelaena
- Verrucaria funckii
- Verrucaria fusconigrescens
- Verrucaria glaucina
- Verrucaria halizoa Leighton – forms small patches on exposed shores.[3]
- Verrucaria hochstetteri
- Verrucaria hydrela
- Verrucaria margacea
- Verrucaria maura Wahl – forms a black layer encrusting as patches on the rocks of the upper littoral and splash zone.[4][5]
- Verrucaria mucosa Wahl – appears as a smooth thallus.[6] Closely encrusting on rock in irregular patches in the middle littoral.[7]
- Verrucaria muralis
- Verrucaria murina
- Verrucaria nigrescens
- Verrucaria pachyderma
- Verrucaria pinguicula
- Verrucaria praetermissa
- Verrucaria prominula
- Verrucaria rupestris Shrad (1794)
- Verrucaria serpuloides
- Verrucaria simplex
- Verrucaria striatula Wahl
- Verrucaria virdula
Distribution
Verrucaria ditmarsica Erichsen and V. Maura Wahlenb. have been recorded in 1984 from the Lighthouse Island, Copeland Island, Co. Down, Ireland.[8]
References
- ^ Gueidan C, Roux C, Lutzoni F (2007). "Using a multigene phylogenetic analysis to assess generic delineation and character evolution in Verrucariaceae (Verrucariales, Ascomycota)". Mycological Research. 111 (Pt 10): 1145–68. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.08.010. PMID 17981450.
- ^ Gilbert, Oliver (2000). Lichens. Hammersmith: HarperCollins. ISBN 0 00 220082 1.
- ^ Dobson, Frank S (2010). A Field Key to Coastal and Seashore Lichens. New Malden: Frank S Dobson. ISBN 978 0 9542324 5 0.
- ^ Lewis, J.R. 1964. The Ecology of Rocky Shores. The English Universities Press Ltd
- ^ Young, CM. 1961. The New Naturalist The Sea Shore. Collins, London
- ^ Campbell, A.C. 1984. The Country Life Guide to the Shallow Seas of Britain and Europe. Country Life Books. ISBN 0-600-34396 0
- ^ Barrett, J.H, and Young, C.M. 1960. Collins Pocket Guide to the Sea Shore. Collins, London
- ^ Morton, O. 1988. Lichens on Lighthouse Island. Copeland Bird Observatory Annual Report for 1986 p.44
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