Muellerella lichenicola

Muellerella lichenicola
	Muellerella lichenicola growing on Caloplaca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Verrucariales
Family:	Verrucariaceae
Genus:	Muellerella
Species:	M. lichenicola
Binomial name
	Muellerella lichenicola; (Sommerf.) D.Hawksw. (1979)
Synonyms
	List Arthopyrenia cookei (Linds.) Arnold (1874) ; Delphinella cookei (Linds.) E.Müll. (1962) ; Endococcus atricola (Linds.) H.Olivier ; Microthelia atricola Linds. (1869) ; Microthelia cookei Linds. (1869) ; Muellerella atricola (Linds.) Sacc. & D.Sacc. (1905) ; Mycosphaerella cookei (Linds.) Sacc. & D.Sacc. (1905) ; Polycarpella cookei (Linds.) Theiss. & Syd. (1918) ; Sphaeria lichenicola Sommerf. (1826) ; Tichothecium erraticum subsp. microphorum (Nyl.) A.L.Sm. (1910) ; Tichothecium lichenicola (Sommerf.) R.Sant. (1960) ; Verrucaria microphora Nyl. (1863) ;

Muellerella lichenicola is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Verrucariaceae. It was first formally described as a new species in 1826 by Søren Christian Sommerfelt, as Sphaeria lichenicola. David Leslie Hawksworth transferred it to the genus Muellerella in 1979.^[1]

It has been reported growing on Caloplaca aurantia, Caloplaca saxicola and Physcia aipolia in Sicily,^[2] and on an unidentified crustose lichen in Iceland.^[3] In Mongolia, it has been reported growing on the thallus of a Biatora-lichen at 2,800 m (9,200 ft) elevation in the Bulgan district and on Aspicilia at 1,850 m (6,070 ft) elevation in the Altai district.^[4] In Victoria Land, Antarctica, it has been reported from multiple hosts, including members of the Teloschistaceae and Physciaceae.^[5]

References

^ Hawksworth, D.L. (1979). "Studies in the genus Endococcus (Ascomycotina, Dothideales)". Botaniska Notiser. 132: 283–290.
^ Brackel, Wolfgang von (2008). "Phoma ficuzzae sp. nov. and some other lichenicolous fungi from Sicily, Italy". Sauteria. 15: 103–120.
^ Brackel, Wolfgang von (2011). "Lichenopeltella rangiferinae sp. nov. and some other lichenicolous fungi from Iceland" (PDF). Acta Botanica Islandica. 15: 51–60.
^ Zhurbenko, Michail P.; Enkhtuya, Ochirbat; Javkhlan, Samiya (2020). "Additions to the checklist of lichenicolous fungi of Mongolia". Folia Cryptogamica Estonica. 57: 9–20. doi:10.12697/fce.2020.57.03. S2CID 240763703.
^ Alstrup, V.; Olech, M.; Wietrzyk-Pelka, P.; Wegrzyn, M. H. (2018). "The lichenicolous fungi of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: species diversity and identification guide". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 87 (4): 3607. doi:10.5586/asbp.3607.

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