Lichenopeltella coppinsii

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Lichenopeltella coppinsii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Microthyriales
Family: Microthyriaceae
Genus: Lichenopeltella
Species:
L. coppinsii
Binomial name
Lichenopeltella coppinsii
Earl.-Benn. & D.Hawksw. (1999)
Synonyms [1]
  • Lichenopeltella coppinsii Höhn.

Lichenopeltella coppinsii is a species of lichenicolous fungus belonging to the class Dothideomycetes. [1] It was described in 1999. [2] It is known to infect Verrucaria muralis and has been reported from the British Isles, [2] Ukraine, [3] and Moshchny Island in the Baltic sea. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lichenopeltella coppinsii". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 Earland-Bennett, P.M.; Hawksworth, D.L. (1999). "Lichenopeltella Coppinsii, A New Species on Verrucaria Muralis From the British Isles". The Lichenologist. 31 (6): 575–578.
  3. Darmostuk, Valerii V. (2021). "Lichenicolous fungi on Verrucaria s. lat. in Ukraine with the description of Zwackhiomyces khodosovtsevii sp. nov. and a key to the lichenicolous fungi on Verrucaria s. lat". Botanica Serbica. 45 (2): 293–301.
  4. Stepanchikova, Irina S.; Himelbrant, Dmitry E.; Schiefelbein, Ulf; Motiejūnaitė, Jurga; Ahti, Teuvo; Andreev, Mikhail P. (2019). "The lichens of Moshchny Island (Lavansaari) – one of the remote islands in the Gulf of Finland". Folia Cryptogamica Estonica. 56: 31–52.