Myxomycetes associated with Australian vertebrate dung

Title
Myxomycetes associated with Australian vertebrate dung
Publication Date
2023-03
Author(s)
Stephenson, Steven L
Elliott, Todd F
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9304-7040
Email: tellio20@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tellio20
Elliott, Kelsey
Vernes, Karl
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1635-9950
Email: kvernes@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kvernes
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.7882/AZ.2022.041
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/54656
Abstract

Little is known about species of myxomycetes associated with vertebrate dung in Australia. In the present study, dung samples of 15 species of mammals (eight marsupials, three native rodents and four domestic or feral eutherians) and a large flightless bird (the southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius) were collected and processed in 84 moist chamber cultures. Fifty-two percent of these cultures yielded evidence (fruiting bodies and/or plasmodia) of myxomycetes. Eleven species belonging to seven genera were recorded. Licea tenera was the most common species in the study (recorded from 12 moist chamber cultures) and is also a new record for the continent. Perichaena depressa, Didymium difforme and Cribraria violacea were the only other species appearing in at least three cultures. Samples of dung collected from small mammals did not yield any myxomycetes.

Link
Citation
Australian Zoologist, 42(4), p. 972-984
ISSN
2204-2105
0067-2238
Start page
972
End page
984

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