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Genus of lichens

Crypthonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Family: Arthoniaceae
Genus: Crypthonia
Frisch & G.Thor (2010)
Type species
Crypthonia polillensis
(Vain.) Frisch & G.Thor (2010)

Crypthonia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. It has 16 species. The genus was circumscribed in 2010 by Andreas Frisch and Göran Thor, with Crypthonia polillensis assigned as the type species.

Species

As of July 2024, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 16 species of Crypthonia, but this does not yet account for three new species described from Brazil in 2024.

References

  1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  2. Frisch, Andreas; Thor, Göran (2009). "Crypthonia, a new genus of byssoid Arthoniaceae (lichenised Ascomycota)". Mycological Progress. 9 (2): 281–303. doi:10.1007/s11557-009-0639-8.
  3. "Crypthonia". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  4. ^ Aptroot, André; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva; Santos, Lidiane Alves dos (2024). "The taxonomy of sterile Arthoniaceae from Brazil: white crusts on overhanging tropical trees can be named". The Lichenologist. 56 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1017/S0024282924000021.
  5. Aptroot, André; Sipman, Harrie J.M.; Käffer, Marcia; Martins, Suzana M.; Ferraro, Lidia Itatí; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2014). "A world key to Stirtonia (Arthoniaceae), with three new Stirtonia species and one new Crypthonia species from the Neotropics". The Lichenologist. 46 (5): 673–679. doi:10.1017/S0024282914000280.
  6. ^ Lima, Edvaneide Leandro de; Mendonça, Cléverton de Oliveira; Aptroot, André; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2013). "Two new species of Cryptothecia from NE Brazil". The Lichenologist. 45 (3): 361–365. doi:10.1017/s0024282912000862.
Taxon identifiers
Crypthonia


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