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Mastodia
''Mastodia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. It has six species. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), 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 symbiosis, 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 lineage (evolution), lineages (the photobionts) that associate. ''Mastodia'' was once classified in the eponymously named, monotypic taxon, monogeneric family Mastodiaceae, proposed by Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1908. Over a century later, molecular phylogenetics analysis demonstrated that ''Mastodia tessellata'' belongs to the family Verrucariaceae, and has a siste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mastodia Mexicana
''Mastodia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. It has six species. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), 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 symbiosis, 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 lineage (evolution), lineages (the photobionts) that associate. ''Mastodia'' was once classified in the eponymously named, monotypic taxon, monogeneric family Mastodiaceae, proposed by Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1908. Over a century later, molecular phylogenetics analysis demonstrated that ''Mastodia tessellata'' belongs to the family Verrucariaceae, and has a siste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |