Cora yukiboa is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Puerto Rico, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Joel Mercado-Díaz, Bibiana Moncada, and Robert Lücking The specific epithet yukiboa refers to Yukibo, the Taíno chief of the Daguao village where the type locality is. The lichen is found in summit forests of El Toro peak in the El Yunque National Forest, at an elevation of 1,074 m (3,524 ft). Here it grows as an epiphyte on shrubs.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hygrophoraceae |
| Genus: | Cora |
| Species: | C. yukiboa
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| Binomial name | |
| Cora yukiboa Merc.-Díaz, B.Moncada & Lücking (2016)
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References
edit- ^ Lücking, Robert; Forno, Manuela Dal; Moncada, Bibiana; Coca, Luis Fernando; Vargas-Mendoza, Leidy Yasmín; Aptroot, André; et al. (2016). "Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus: seventy new species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), honouring David Leslie Hawksworth's seventieth birthday". Fungal Diversity. 84 (1): 139–207. doi:10.1007/s13225-016-0374-9. S2CID 27732638.