Check List 14(3): 509-518, doi: 10.15560/14.3.509
New records of genera and species of myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the Neotropics
Carlos Lado‡, Arturo Estrada-Torres§, Carlos Rojas Alvarado|‡ Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC, Madrid, Spain§ Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Mexico| Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica
Corresponding author: Carlos Rojas Alvarado ( carlos.rojasalvarado@ucr.ac.cr ) Academic editor: Adalgisa Fernanda Cabral © 2018 Carlos Lado, Arturo Estrada-Torres, Carlos Rojas Alvarado. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Lado C, Estrada-Torres A, Rojas C (2018) New records of genera and species of myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the Neotropics. Check List 14(3): 509-518. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.3.509 |  |
Abstract
During field surveys of myxomycetes in Central America, 2 previously unrecorded genera and 4 species, viz. Craterium muscorum Ing, Dictydiaethalium dictyosporum Nann.-Bremek., Physarina echinocephala Höhn, and Stemonaria rufipes, were identified. Some of these are new for the Neotropics. These noteworthy range extensions of these species to the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot adds to our knowledge of rarely recorded myxomycetes worldwide. Images of the more relevant taxonomic characters are provided, and for some species, this is the first illustrations with macro and microphotographs and scanning electron microscopy images.
Keywords
Biodiversity; geographical distribution; Mesoamerica; SEM