Biology:Verrucaria halizoa

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Verrucaria halizoa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Verrucaria
Species:
V. halizoa
Binomial name
Verrucaria halizoa
Leight. (1871)
Synonyms[1]

Verrucaria halizoa is a widespread species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae.[2] It was formally described as a new species in 1871 by William Allport Leighton.[3] The lichen has a thin, superficial thallus that is pale olive-green to brown in colour; it lacks ridges or punctae. The thallus is somewhat gelatinous, and more or less translucent when moist. It grows in shaded nooks and crannies among seashore rocks, in the mid-littoral zone. The widely distributed species occurs in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, the subantarctic islands, and Antarctica.[4]

See also

  • List of Verrucaria species

References

  1. "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Verrucaria halizoa Leight., Lich.-Fl. Great Brit.: 436 (1871)". Species Fungorum. https://www.speciesfungorum.org/GSD/GSDspecies.asp?RecordID=409186. 
  2. "Verrucaria halizoa Leight.". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5B84F. 
  3. Leighton, William Allport (1871). The lichen-flora of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands (3rd ed.). Shrewsbury: Printed for the author. p. 461. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37827215. 
  4. Orange, A.; Hawksworth, D.L.; McCarthy, P.M.; Fletcher, A. (2009). "Verrucaria". The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland. London: British Lichen Society. p. 949. 

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