''Endococcus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
lichenicolous
A lichenicolous fungus is a parasitic fungus that only lives on lichen as the host. A lichenicolous fungus is not the same as the fungus that is the component of the lichen, which is known as a lichenized fungus. They are most commonly specific to ...
(lichen-dwelling) in the family
Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
by the Finnish botanist
William Nylander
William Andrew Michael Junior Nylander Altelius (born 1 May 1996) is a Canadian-born Swedish professional ice hockey right winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nylander was selected by the Maple Leafs in th ...
in 1855.
Although at least one source places the genus in the
Verrucariaceae
The Verrucariaceae are a family of mostly lichenised fungi in the order Verrucariales. The lichen-forming species, which comprise the vast majority of the family, have a wide variety of thallus forms, and include crustose (crust-like), foliose ( ...
, a 2016 study of the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
, ''
Endococcus rugulosus'', determined that it should instead be placed in the family Lichenotheliaceae of the order
Dothideales
Dothideales are an order of bitunicate fungi consisting mainly of saprobic or plant parasitic species.
Description
Taxa in this order are characterized by the absence of a hamathecium (defined as hyphae or other tissues between asci) in a loc ...
;
this classification echoes a placement proposed in 1979 by
David Hawksworth.
Species
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Endococcus alectoriae''
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Endococcus apicicola''
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Endococcus brachysporus''
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Endococcus caudisporus''
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Endococcus cladiae''
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Endococcus exerrans''
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Endococcus freyi''
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Endococcus fusiger''
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Endococcus hafellneri''
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Endococcus hafellnerianus''
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Endococcus incrassatus''
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Endococcus janae''
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Endococcus karlstadtensis''
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Endococcus macrosporus''
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Endococcus matzeri''
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Endococcus nanellus''
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Endococcus oreinae''
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Endococcus oropogonicola''
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Endococcus pallidosporus''
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Endococcus parentium''
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Endococcus parmeliarum''
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Endococcus peltigericola''
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Endococcus perminutus''
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Endococcus physciae''
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Endococcus propinquus''
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Endococcus protoblasteniae''
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Endococcus pseudocyphellariae''
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Endococcus ramalinarius''
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Endococcus rugulosus''
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Endococcus sardous''
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Endococcus sendtneri''
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Endococcus sipmanii''
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Endococcus thamnoliae''
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Endococcus thelommatis''
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Endococcus tricolorans''
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Endococcus umbilicariae''
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Endococcus variabilis''
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Endococcus verrucisporus''
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Endococcus verrucosus''
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Endococcus xanthoparmeliae''
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Endococcus zahlbrucknerellae''
References
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes genera
Taxa named by William Nylander (botanist)
Taxa described in 1855
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