Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cora glabrata
liquen ostra, Conch lichen
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Hygrophoraceae
Genus
Cora
Species
glabrata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dictyonema glabratum fide Bungartz 2010; In Dodge (1935) und Weber (1966) as Cora pavonia
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Dodge, C.W. (1935) Lichenes. In: H.K. Svenson: Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galápagos and Cocos Islands). Amer. J. Bot. 22 (2): 221.
- Weber, W.A. (1966) Lichenology and Bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with Check Lists of the Lichens and Bryophytes Thus Far Reported. In: Bowman, R.I. (ed.): The Galápagos. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 197-200.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
- Yánez-Ayabaca, A. Dal-Forno, M., Bungartz, F., Lücking, R. (2012) A first assessment of Galapagos basidiolichens Fungal Diversity 52:225-244
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cora glabrata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11387. Accessed 2 November 2026.