scholarly journals One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity

Phytotaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. T. Lumbsch ◽  
T. Ahti ◽  
S. Altermann ◽  
G. A. De Paz ◽  
A. Aptroot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lichenized Fungi ◽  
Global Diversity

scholarly journals Ten new species of Cladonia (Cladoniaceae, Lichenized Fungi) from the Guianas and Venezuela, South America

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
TEUVO AHTI ◽  
HARRIE J. M. SIPMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Lichenized Fungi ◽  
The Family ◽  
Northern South America ◽  
The Guianas

The diversity of the lichen family Cladoniaceae in the Neotropics is apparently underestimated. A revision of the family for the Flora of the Guianas resulted in the description of 10 species new to science from Northern South America: Cladonia cayennensis; Cladonia flavocrispata; Cladonia isidiifera; Cladonia maasii; Cladonia mollis; Cladonia persphacelata; Cladonia recta; Cladonia rupununii; Cladonia subsphacelata; Cladonia termitarum.

scholarly journals A new fossil species of Procellaria (Aves: Procellariiformes) from the Pliocene of New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. e20216116
Author(s):  
Alan James Drummond Tennyson ◽  
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Late Pliocene ◽  
Global Diversity ◽  
History Of

We describe a new Procellaria petrel species from the late Pliocene of Taranaki, New Zealand. The new species is most similar morphologically to the White-Chinned Petrel (P. aequinoctialis), Spectacled Petrel (P. conspicillata) and the Westland Petrel (P. westlandica). Compared with those taxa, the new species has a deeper and shorter premaxilla, longer coracoid and shorter wings, while its legs are a similar size. Today, New Zealand is the centre of global diversity of the genus, with four breeding species. This is the first fossil species of Procellaria to be described from New Zealand, attesting to a reasonably long history of this genus in the region.

scholarly journals The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark K. L. Wong ◽  
Evan P Economo ◽  
Benoit Guenard
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Biological Invasions ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Multistage Process ◽  
Species Introductions ◽  
Global Diversity ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Blind Spots

The ecological and economic impacts of biological invasions are usually highly conspicuous, but these are the outcome of a global, multistage process that is obscured from view. For most taxa, we lack a large-scale picture of the movements of alien species, the biases and filters that promote or inhibit their spread at each stage, and blind spots in our ability to detect species during their spread. For instance, countries rely heavily on customs interceptions to prevent new species introductions, but their efficacy for detecting invaders remains unclear. To address these gaps, we synthesize and provide data at unprecedented geographic resolution on the global diversity and distribution of alien ants, a pervasive group strongly impacting humans and ecosystems. From >145,000 records spanning 602 regions, we identify 522 ant species exhibiting human-mediated spread, doubling recent estimates of their diversity. We show that movements of alien ant species across regions globally are non-random and, moreover, that these flows differ by the extents to which species invade—ranging from arrival to indoor establishment, naturalization, and harmful status. Importantly, we find that almost two-thirds of the 309 species that naturalize globally—most of which are ground- and litter-dwelling—are absent from customs interceptions, which record disproportionately high numbers of arboreal species. Our results illustrate the vast, yet uneven extent of ant invasions globally, and suggest that most alien species bypass biosecurity controls while spreading successfully worldwide. This raises doubts on the efficacy of current customs interceptions procedures and highlights a need for radically new approaches.

Burrowsia, a new genus of lichenized fungi (Caliciaceae), plus the new species B. cataractae and Scoliciosporum fabisporum, from Mpumalanga, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 471-481
Author(s):  
Alan M. Fryday ◽  
Ian D. Medeiros ◽  
Stefan J. Siebert ◽  
Nathaniel Pope ◽  
Nishanta Rajakaruna
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Lichenized Fungi

A molecular phylogeny of Pilocarpaceae Zahlbr., including a new species of Tapellaria Müll. Arg. and new records of foliicolous lichenized fungi from Thailand

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 377-385
Author(s):  
Wei-Cheng Wang ◽  
Ek Sangvichien ◽  
Tie-Zheng Wei ◽  
Jiang-Chun Wei
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Lichenized Fungi ◽  
Foliicolous Lichens ◽  
Khao Yai National Park ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe phylogeny of foliicolous taxa in Pilocarpaceae was reconstructed using Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of concatenated ITS and mtSSU sequences. Sixty-six new partial sequences representing 36 taxa were generated and 29 sequences were downloaded from GenBank. Our results indicate that Lasioloma R. Sant. is nested within a paraphyletic Calopadia Vězda, whereas Fellhanera Vězda is polyphyletic and the phylogenetic relationships of Eugeniella Lücking et al. and Sporopodium Mont. with Fellhanera require further investigation. In addition, Tapellaria parvimuriformis W. C. Wang & J. C. Wei is described as a new species from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, and is characterized by its small muriform ascospores, grey campylidia with a pale base, and short conidia. Eight new records of foliicolous lichens for Thailand are also listed.

Twenty-one new species of Pyrenula from South America, with a note on over-mature ascospores

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
André APTROOT ◽  
Harrie J. M. SIPMAN ◽  
Marcela Eugenia da Silva CÁCERES
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Lichenized Fungi ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Yellow Orange ◽  
One New Species

AbstractTwenty-three species of Pyrenula from Latin America are treated here. Several species show characters that were not previously reported in the genus and are rare or new to lichenized fungi, viz. yellow, orange or red (KOH+ green) oil inspersion in the hymenium, yellow oil in young ascospores or longitudinal ridges on the ascospore wall. Two taxonomically significant types of over-mature spores are illustrated. The following new species are described: Pyrenula aggregataspistea Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. aurantioinspersa Aptroot & Sipman, P. cornutispora Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. flavoinspersa Aptroot & Sipman, P. guyanensis Sipman & Aptroot, P. infraleucotrypa Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. inframamillana Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. infrastroidea Aptroot & Sipman, P. maritima Sipman & Aptroot, P. mattickiana Sipman & Aptroot, P. minoides Aptroot & Sipman, P. monospora Aptroot & Sipman, P. paraminarum Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. perfecta Aptroot & Sipman, P. plicata Sipman & Aptroot, P. rubroinspersa Aptroot & Sipman, P. rubronitidula Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. rubrostigma Aptroot & M. Cáceres, P. tetraspora Aptroot & Sipman, P. triangularis Aptroot & Sipman, P. viridipyrgilla Aptroot & M. Cáceres. Pyrenula seminuda (Müll. Arg.) Sipman & Aptroot is a new combination.

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