Sporormiella

Sporormiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Subclass:	Pleosporomycetidae
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Sporormiaceae
Genus:	Sporormiella; Ellis & Everh.
Type species
	Sporormiella nigropurpurea; Ellis & Everh.

Sporormiella is a genus of fungi in the family Sporormiaceae.[1] Species of the genus are obligately coprophilous, occurring on the dung of domestic livestock as well as wild herbivores.[2] The genus is distributed across boreal and temperate regions of the world, and contains about 80 species.[3] The spores have characteristic features–they are dark brown, septate and have a pronounced sigmoid germination pore, which enables their use in paleoecology as a proxy for the abundance of grazing mammals.[4][5]

References

Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.
Ahmed SE, Cain RF (1972). "Revision of the genera Sporormia and Sporormiella". Canadian Journal of Botany. 50 (3): 419–77. doi:10.1139/b72-061.
Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 658. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
Davis OK, Shafer DS (2005). "Sporormiella fungal spores, a palynological means of detecting herbivore density". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 237: 40–50. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.028.
Williams JJ, Gosling WD, Coe AL, Brooks SJ (2011). "Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba basin, Bolivia". Quaternary Research. online: 58. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.004.

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[1] Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.

[2] Ahmed SE, Cain RF (1972). "Revision of the genera Sporormia and Sporormiella". Canadian Journal of Botany. 50 (3): 419–77. doi:10.1139/b72-061.

[Kirk2008-3] Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 658. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

[4] Davis OK, Shafer DS (2005). "Sporormiella fungal spores, a palynological means of detecting herbivore density". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 237: 40–50. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.028.

[5] Williams JJ, Gosling WD, Coe AL, Brooks SJ (2011). "Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba basin, Bolivia". Quaternary Research. online: 58. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.004.