''Endococcus'' 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
lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family
Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 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 ...
by the Finnish botanist
William Nylander
William Andrew Michael Junior Nylander Altelius (born 1 May 1996) is a Swedish professional ice hockey Forward (ice hockey), forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nylander was selected by the Maple Leafs in t ...
in 1855.
Although at least one source places the genus in the
Verrucariaceae
Verrucariaceae is a family of lichens and a few non-lichenised fungi in the order Verrucariales. The lichens have a wide variety of thallus forms, from crustose (crust-like) to foliose (bushy) and squamulose (scaly). Most of them grow on lan ...
, a 2016 study of 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 ...
, ''
Endococcus rugulosus'', determined that it should instead be placed in the family Lichenotheliaceae of the order
Dothideales
Dothideales are an order (biology), order of bitunicate fungi consisting mainly of saprobic or plant parasitic species.
Description
Taxa in this order are characterized by the absence of a hamathecium (defined as hyphae or other tissues betwee ...
;
this classification echoes a placement proposed in 1979 by
David Hawksworth.
Species
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Endococcus alectoriae''
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Endococcus apicicola''
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Endococcus brachysporus''
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Endococcus caudisporus''
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Endococcus cladiae''
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Endococcus exerrans''
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Endococcus freyi''
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Endococcus fusiger''
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Endococcus hafellneri''
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Endococcus hafellnerianus''
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Endococcus incrassatus''
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Endococcus janae''
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Endococcus karlstadtensis''
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Endococcus macrosporus''
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Endococcus matzeri''
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Endococcus nanellus''
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Endococcus oreinae''
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Endococcus oropogonicola''
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Endococcus pallidosporus''
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Endococcus parentium''
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Endococcus parmeliarum''
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Endococcus peltigericola''
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Endococcus perminutus''
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Endococcus physciae''
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Endococcus propinquus''
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Endococcus protoblasteniae''
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Endococcus pseudocyphellariae''
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Endococcus ramalinarius''
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Endococcus rugulosus''
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Endococcus sardous''
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Endococcus sendtneri''
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Endococcus sipmanii''
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Endococcus thamnoliae''
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Endococcus thelommatis''
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Endococcus tricolorans''
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Endococcus umbilicariae''
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Endococcus variabilis''
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Endococcus verrucisporus''
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Endococcus verrucosus''
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Endococcus xanthoparmeliae''
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Endococcus zahlbrucknerellae''
References
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes genera
Taxa named by William Nylander (botanist)
Taxa described in 1855
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