''Coppinsidea'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of two species of

crustose lichen Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...

s in the family

Ramalinaceae The Ramalinaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Lecanorales. First proposed by Carl Adolph Agardh in 1821, the family now comprises 63 genera and about 750 species. Ramalinaceae lichens exhibit diverse growth forms, includin ...

. It was

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

in 2019 by lichenologists

Sergey Kondratyuk Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk () (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the taxonomy, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lichenicolous fungi. He has worked at the for mo ...

, Edit Farkas, and Laszlo Lőkös with ''Coppinsidea sphaerella'' designated as the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

. Species of ''Coppinsidea'' are similar in appearance and

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to '' Thamnolecania'', but differ from them in having a

thallus Thallus (: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. A thallus usually names the entir ...

that is crustose (rather than

fruticose A fruticose lichen is a form of lichen fungi that is characterized by a coral-like shrubby or bushy lichen growth forms, growth structure. It is formed from a symbiotic relationship of a photobiont such as green algae or less commonly cyanobacteri ...

), mostly convex to almost spherical

apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (: ascomata), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. As ...

that are lecideine or biatorine in structure, as well as in being distributed in the

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. The genus is named to honour British lichenologist Brian J. Coppins.

Species

*'' Coppinsidea sphaerella'' *'' Coppinsidea vainioana'' Several species included in the original circumscription of the genus have since been moved to other genera: *''Coppinsidea alba'' (''

Biatora veteranorum ''Biatora'' is a genus of lichens in the family Ramalinaceae. Originally circumscribed in 1817,Fries EM, Sandberg A. (1817). ''Lichenum dianome nova''. Lund. the genus consists of crustose and squamulose lichens with green algal photobionts, bi ...

'') *''Coppinsidea aphana'' (''

Catillaria aphana ''Catillaria'' is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Catillariaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852. It is the type genus of Catillariaceae, which was circumscribed by Austrian ...

'') *''Coppinsidea croatica'' (''

Lecania croatica ''Lecania'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Ramalinaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1853. ''Lecania'' is widely distributed, especially in temperate regions, and contains about 64 species. S ...

'') *''Coppinsidea fuscoviridis'' ('' Bacidia fuscoviridis'') *''Coppinsidea pallens'' (''

Biatora pallens ''Biatora'' is a genus of lichens in the family Ramalinaceae. Originally circumscribed in 1817,Fries EM, Sandberg A. (1817). ''Lichenum dianome nova''. Lund. the genus consists of crustose and squamulose lichens with green algal photobionts, bi ...

'') *''Coppinsidea ropalosporoides'' (''

Gyalidea ropalosporoides ''Gyalidea'' is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Gomphillaceae. It has 50 species. Species *'' Gyalidea asteriscus'' *'' Gyalidea austrocoreana'' *'' Gyalidea corticola'' *'' Gyalidea diaphana'' *''Gyalidea fritzei'' *''Gyalidea f ...

'') *''Coppinsidea scotinodes'' (''

Catillaria scotinodes ''Catillaria'' is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Catillariaceae. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852. It is the type genus of Catillariaceae, which wa ...

'')

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q105043801 Ramalinaceae Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 2019 Taxa named by Sergey Kondratyuk Taxa named by Edit Éva Farkas Taxa named by László Sándor Lőkös