''Moana'' is a fungal

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

in the family Halosphaeriaceae. This is a

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genus, containing the single species ''Moana turbinulata'', described as new to science in 1989.

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Microascales Monotypic Sordariomycetes genera {{Microascales-stub