Taxonomic notes on coprophilous fungi of the Arctic: Churchill, Resolute Bay, and Devon Island

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Author: Booth, Tom
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1982
• Subjects: Plant Science; Arctic; Devon Island; Resolute Bay; Bear Rock; Arctic Fox; Arctic hare; musk ox; rock ptarmigan
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b82-141; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b82-141

Various dung substrates including that of arctic fox, arctic hare, arctic wolf, lemming, musk-ox, polar bear, rock ptarmigan, and snow goose were collected from the Churchill region, Resolute Bay region, Scogan Lowland, Sverdrup Lowland, Truelove Lowland, and Truelove Valley. These collections were incubated and surveyed for coprophilous fungi. Of 20 taxa recorded Ascobolus stictoideus, Cheilymenia coprinaria, Coprobia granulata, Lilliputia rufula, Sporormiella bipartis, Sporormiella dubia, Sporormiella minima, Sporormiella septenaria, and a Zopfiella sp. are first reports for Arctic sites. Taxonomic problems are discussed in some detail for Sporormiella intermedia and Thelebolus polysporous.