Galapagos Species Database
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Squamidium nigricans

Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Leucodontales
Family
Meteoriaceae
Genus
Squamidium
Species
nigricans
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pilotrichella nigricans
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.
- Farlow, W.G. (1902) Lichens. In: B.L. Robinson: Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Amerc. Acad. Arts Sc. 38(4): 83-89, N.S. 14 (Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapagos Islands)
- Ångström, A.J. (1873) Förteckning och beskrifning öfver mossor, samlade af N. J. Andersson under Fregatten Eugenies verldsomsegling aren 1851-1853. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 5: 113-151.
- Bartram, E.B. (1933) Mosses of the Tempelton Crocker Expedition Collected by John Thomas Howell and Lists of the Mosses Known from the Galapagos Islands and from Cocos Island. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th Series 21(8): 75-86.
- Weber, W.A. (1971) Mosses of Galapagos: A tentative list. Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished.
- Miquel, S.E. Bungartz, F. (2017) Snails found among herbarium specimens of Galapagos lichens and bryophytes, with the description of Scolodonta rinae (Gastropoda, Scolodontidae), a new species of carnivorous micro-mollusk Archiv für Molluskenkunde (in press).
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"Galapagos Species Database, Squamidium nigricans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=3394. Accessed 28 May 2025.