Neoechinodiscus is a genus of two species of lichenicolous fungi with uncertain familial placement in the order Helotiales.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Leotiomycetes |
| Order: | Helotiales |
| Genus: | Neoechinodiscus Molinari & R.Sierra (2020) |
| Type species | |
| Neoechinodiscus lesdainii (Vouaux) R.Sierra & Molinari (2020)
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Species:
- Neoechinodiscus kozhevnikovii (Zhurb.) Molinari & R. Sierra (2020)
- Neoechinodiscus lesdainii (Vouaux) R.Sierra & Molinari (2020)
These species used to be classified in Echinodiscus, a genus proposed by Javier Etayo and Paul Diederich in 2000.[1] Diederich subsequently discovered that the fungal use of the genus name was an illegitimate homonym, as it had already been used for a legume genus in 1837, as well as for a diatom genus in 1925.[2] The replacement name Neoechinodiscus was proposed by Rubén Sierra and Eduardo Molinari-Novoa in 2020.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Etayo, J.; Diederich, P. (2000). "Echinodiscus lesdainii gen. et comb. nov., a new name for Phacopsis lesdainii Vouaux (lichenicolous Ascomycetes, Leotiales)". Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois. 100: 63–66.
- ^ Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. S2CID 92396850.
- ^ Sierra, Rubén; Molinari-Novoa, Eduardo (2020). "Neoechinodiscus, a new name for Echinodiscus Etayo & Diederich (lichenicolous Helotiales)". Opuscula Philolichenum. 19: 172–173.