- Proposed
- Under Assessment
- VUPreliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Didymium peruvianum Lado, D. Wrigley & S.L. Stephenson
- Scientific name
- Didymium peruvianum
- Author
- Lado, D. Wrigley & S.L. Stephenson
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Phylum
- Amoebozoa
- Class
- Myxogastrea
- Order
- Stemonitida
- Family
- Didymiidae
- Assessment status
- Preliminary Assessed
- Preliminary Category
- VU B1ab(iii)
- Proposed by
- E. Ricardo Drechsler-Santos
- Assessors
- Paul Gamboa-Trujillo, Raquel Milagros Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Mayra Camino Vilaró
- Comments etc.
- E. Ricardo Drechsler-Santos
Assessment Notes
Justification
La especie Didymium peruvianum fue descrita en el 2016 a partir de material recolectado en el 2012 en zonas áridas costeras y andinas de Perú. Se muestrearon 96 localidades en esta región hiperarida costera, recolectando 723 especímenes. La especie consta de cuatro registros de ocurrencia en el mes de septiembre del 2012 en dos localidades diferentes. Se obtuvo a partir de hojarasca en cámara húmeda. Se ha trabajado también en Chile en el desierto de Atacama en áreas hiperáridas y no se ha encontrado la especie.
Taxonomic notes
Reino: Protozoa
Filo: Mycetozoa
Clase: Myxomycetes
Orden: Physarales
Familia: Didymiaceae
Especie: Didymium peruvianum
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
Peruvian Coastal Desert
Population and Trends
Climate change and loss of xerophytic plant cover
Population Trend: Improving
Habitat and Ecology
Just collected in two localities in the Peruvian Costal Desert (hyperarid areas)
Habitat: on dead twigs, aerial and ground plant litter.
They are extremophylous myxomicetes
Threats
Climate change and loss of xerophytic plant cover
Conservation Actions
Current action: Not found
Needed actions: Increase the ecological study of the area in its different components that allow its adequate conservation and management.
Research needed
Increase the ecological study of the area in its different components that allow its adequate conservation and management.
Area monitoring and check list
Use and Trade
Others: Ecosystem services
Bibliography
Lado Carlos, Wrigley de Basanta Diana, Estrada-Torres Arturo & Stephenson Steven L. 2016. Myxomycete diversity in the coastal desert of peru with emphasis on the lomas formations. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 73(1): e032 2016. ISSN: 0211-1322. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/ajbm.2436
Country occurrence
Regional Population and Trends
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