''Crypthonia'' 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
lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...
-forming
fungi
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in the family
Arthoniaceae
The Arthoniaceae are a family (biology), family of lichenized, Lichenicolous fungus, lichenicolous and saprobic fungi in the order Arthoniales. The Arthoniaceae is the largest family of Arthoniales, with around 800 species. Most species in Arthon ...
. It has 16 species.
The genus 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 2010 by Andreas Frisch and Göran Thor, with ''
Crypthonia polillensis'' assigned 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
,
Species Fungorum
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(in the
Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxono ...
) accepts 16 species of ''Crypthonia'',
but this does not yet account for three new species described from Brazil in 2024.
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Crypthonia albida''
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Crypthonia athertonensis''
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Crypthonia bella''
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Crypthonia biseptata''
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Crypthonia brevispora''
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Crypthonia citrina''
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Crypthonia corticorygmoides''
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Crypthonia divaricatica''
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Crypthonia irregularis''
– Brazil
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Crypthonia lichexanthonica''
– Brazil
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Crypthonia mycelioides''
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Crypthonia olivacea Frisch''
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Crypthonia palaeotropica''
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Crypthonia polillensis''
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Crypthonia pseudisidiata''
– Brazil
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Crypthonia streimannii''
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Crypthonia stromatica''
– Brazil
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Crypthonia submuriformis''
– Brazil
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Crypthonia vandenboomii''
References
Arthoniaceae
Arthoniomycetes genera
Lichen genera
Taxa described in 2010
Taxa named by Göran Thor
Taxa named by Andreas Frisch
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