Rigidoporus crocatus re-collected in Finland plus new records of other rare polypores (Basidiomycetes)

New records of Hyphomycetes fungi in Iran

In present study, two species of Hyphomycetes fungi including, Cephaliophora tropica (in soil), and Monascus pilosus (on corn silage) are reported for the first time to Iranian mycobiota. Descriptions of these species have been provided with morphological characteristics and ITS rDNA sequence analyses.  

Three polypores from Xizang new to China

Three polypores, Haploporus thindii, Oxyporus subulatus, and Skeletocutis krawtzewii, are newly reported from Xizang Autonomous Region, southwestern China. The illustrated descriptions of these fungi are given based on the Chinese collections. A new combination, Haploporus thindii (Natarajan & Kolandavelu) Y.C.

New Locality Records for Some Rare Mosses in Tasmania

There have been more than 640 species of bryophytes recorded for Tasmania, comprised of 282 hepatic species (Ratkowsky 1987) and 361 moss species (Dalton et al. 1991). This number of species is significant when compared to other groups ofland plants and, therefore, the bryophytes represent a major component of the flora (table 1). Since the publication of an annotated checklist of Tasmanian mos...

Coriolin, a new Basidiomycetes antibiotic.

Records of new and rare elasmobranchs from Taiwan.

Five new records of elasmobranchs collected from eastern Taiwan fish markets, Da-xi and Cheng-gong, are presented. Samples were caught by deepsea longliners and bottom trawlers which operate in northeastern waters off Taiwan between 2004 and 2012. These five new species records include the smalltooth sandtiger, Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae), salamander shark, Parm...