Ascobolus brantophilus
Appearance
Ascobolus brantophilus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Pezizomycetes |
Order: | Pezizales |
Family: | Ascobolaceae |
Genus: | Ascobolus |
Species: | A. brantophilus
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Binomial name | |
Ascobolus brantophilus Dissing, 1989
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Ascobolus brantophilus is a species of coprophilous fungus in the family Ascobolaceae.[1] It grows on goose droppings.[2]
Ascobolus brantophilus mainly has an Arctic and Subarctic distribution. It described in 1989 from Greenland, Ellesmere Island and Svalbard[3] and has since then been reported from Iceland,[4][2] the Shetland Islands[5] and the Falkland Islands[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ascobolus brantophilus Dissing". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ a b c Richardson, Michael J. (2011). "Additions to the Coprophilous Mycota of Iceland" (PDF). Acta Botanica Islandica. 15: 23–49.
- ^ a b Dissing, Henry (1989). "Four new coprophilous species of Ascobolus and Saccobolus from Greenland (Pezizales)". Opera Botanica. 100: 43–50.
- ^ a b Richardson, Michael J. (2004). "Coprophilous fungi from Iceland" (PDF). Acta Botanica Islandica. 14: 77–102.
- ^ a b Richardson, Michael J. (2006). "New Records of Fungi from Orkney and Shetland". Botanical Journal of Scotland. 58 (1): 93–104.
- ^ a b Watling, R.; Richardson, M. J. (2010). "Coprophilous fungi of the Falkland Islands". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 67 (3): 399–423. doi:10.1017/S0960428610000156.