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Mastodia
Sign in to saveMastodia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. It has six species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderVerrucariales
- FamilyVerrucariaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 68
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Mastodiaceae
- Collections
- US, FH, COLO, UFMS, MSC, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Antarctica, Australia, United States, Canada, AntáRtida, New Zealand, Ile Krogmann-Howgard, French Southern Territories
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Mastodiaceae
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- taxon name
- Mastodia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Mastodia tessellata
- Commons category
- Mastodia
- taxon author citation
- Hook. f. & Harv.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
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- Species
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Mastodia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. It has six species.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Henry Harvey. The type species, Mastodia tessellata, is a bipolar (i.e., found in both the Arctic and Antarctica), coastal lichen. It forms a symbiotic association with the macroscopic genus Prasiola; this is the only known lichen symbiosis involving a foliose green alga. Studies suggest that throughout its geographic range, the lichen comprises two fungal species (the mycobionts) and three algal lineages (the photobionts) that associate.
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