Hydropunctaria symbalana

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Hydropunctaria symbalana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Hydropunctaria
Species:
H. symbalana
Binomial name
Hydropunctaria symbalana
(Nyl.) Cl.Roux (2020)
Synonyms [1]
  • Verrucaria symbalanaNyl. (1873)
  • Verrucaria maura var. symbalana(Nyl.) Wedd. (1875)

Hydropunctaria symbalana is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. [2] This Mediterranean marine lichen was first described as a new species in 1873 by the Finish lichenologist William Nylander, who classified it in the genus Verrucaria . The type specimen was collected in Cape Béar, in the Eastern Pyrenees region of France, near the Mediterranean Sea. [3] Claude Roux transferred the taxon to the genus Hydropunctaria in 2020. [4]

In addition to France, the lichen has been documented from marine communities in Greece, [5] and in Turkey's Iskenderun Bay, [6] where it lives in the littoral zone in maritime environments.

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References

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