Hydropunctaria symbalana

Hydropunctaria symbalana is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae.^[2] This Mediterranean marine lichen was first described as a new species in 1873 by the Finish lichenologist William Nylander, who classified it in the genus Verrucaria. The type specimen was collected in Cape Béar, in the Eastern Pyrenees region of France, near the Mediterranean Sea.^[3] Claude Roux transferred the taxon to the genus Hydropunctaria in 2020.^[4]

Hydropunctaria symbalana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Verrucariales
Family:	Verrucariaceae
Genus:	Hydropunctaria
Species:	H. symbalana
Binomial name
Hydropunctaria symbalana (Nyl.) Cl.Roux (2020)
Synonyms[1]
Verrucaria symbalana Nyl. (1873) Verrucaria maura var. symbalana (Nyl.) Wedd. (1875)

In addition to France, the lichen has been documented from marine communities in Greece,^[5] and in Turkey's Iskenderun Bay,^[6] where it lives in the littoral zone in maritime environments.

References

1. "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Hydropunctaria symbalana (Nyl.) Cl. Roux, in Roux et al., Catalogue des Lichens et Champignons lichénicoles de France Métropolitaine, 3e édition revue et augmentée 1: 1286 (2020)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
2. "Hydropunctaria symbalana (Nyl.) Cl. Roux". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
3. Nylander, W. (1872). "Observata lichenologia in Pyranaeis orientalibus" [Lichenological observations in the Eastern Pyrenees]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie (in Latin). 6 (2): 256–328 [314].
4. Roux, Claude (2020). Catalogue des lichens et champignons lichénicoles de France métropolitaine (3 ed.). Association française de lichénologie. p. 1286. ISBN 978-2-9547896-0-6.
5. Coppejans, E. (1974). "A preliminary study of the marine algal communities on the islands of Milos and Sikinos (Cyclades-Greece)". Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique / Bulletin van de Koninklijke Belgische Botanische Vereniging. 107 (2): 387–406. JSTOR 20793544.
6. İnandi, Burak Türker; Alkan, Celal; Altun, Ayhan; Özcan, Tahir (2014). "Macrobenthic fauna in the rocky supralittoral zone between Iskenderun-Arsuz (Iskenderun Bay)". Aquaculture Studies. 14 (4): 3–8. doi:10.17693/yunusae.v2014i21954.235725.