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Circinaria
Sign in to saveCircinaria is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Megasporaceae. It was circumscribed by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link in 1809.
Species
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyValloniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 62
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Megasporaceae
- Collections
- ASU, USU, F, OBI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DUKE
- Recorded in
- Romania, United States, Russia, Canada, Algeria, Sweden, Morocco
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Megasporaceae
- Image
- Circinaria contorta (26967183768).jpg
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Circinaria is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Megasporaceae. It was circumscribed by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link in 1809.
==Species== , Species Fungorum accepts 40 species of Circinaria. Circinaria affinis Circinaria arida Circinaria caesiocinerea Circinaria calcarea Circinaria calcitrapa Circinaria cerebroides Circinaria clercii Circinaria contorta Circinaria crespiana Circinaria cupreogrisea Circinaria deminuta – Australia Circinaria digitata Circinaria elmorei Circinaria emiliae Circinaria esculenta Circinaria excrescens Circinaria fruticulosa Circinaria gibbosa Circinaria hispida Circinaria hispidoides Circinaria hoffmanniana Circinaria jussuffii Circinaria lacunosa Circinaria laxilobata Circinaria leprosescens Circinaria maculata Circinaria mansourii Circinaria nimisii – Greece Circinaria ochracea Circinaria ochraceoalba Circinaria persepolitana Circinaria rogeri Circinaria rostamii Circinaria scabridula Circinaria schafeevii Circinaria scyphulifera – Russia Circinaria semicontorta Circinaria serenensis Circinaria straussii Circinaria subochracea Circinaria tominii Circinaria tortuosa Circinaria transbaicalica Circinaria ucrainica – Ukraine Circinaria yiae – China
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Circinaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.