Fissurina atlantica is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2018 by Thamires Almeida Pereira, Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres, and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected from the Mata do Cipó (Capela e Siriri, Sergipe) at an elevation between 80 and 100 m (260 and 330 ft); here, in an Atlantic Rainforest remnant, it was found growing in the understory. The lichen has a white-grey to pale yellowish-grey or cream-colored thallus lacking a prothallus, and reaches a diameter of 1–5 cm (0.4–2.0 in). It is the first species in genus Fissurina to form soralia. The species epithet atlantica refers to its habitat.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Fissurina |
| Species: | F. atlantica
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| Fissurina atlantica T.A.Pereira, M.Cáceres & Lücking (2018)
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References
edit- ^ Pereira, Thamires Almeida; Passos, Paula de Oliveira; Santos, Lidiane Alves dos; Lücking, Robert; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2018). "Going extinct before being discovered? New lichen fungi from a small fragment of the vanishing Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil". Biota Neotropica. 18 (1). doi:10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2017-0445.
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