Open jhammock opened 8 months ago
@jhammock thanks for sharing your notes on the suspicious tube worm interaction from a fungi collection.
Did you consider contacting the reported keeper of the collection, Lisa A. Castlebury (Lisa.Castlebury@USDA.GOV) ? https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1106631
I may yet! The binomial on the record is transcribed from an old document and there may be an issue with the transcription. I think that is a separate issue. Several different genus names appear to be mapping from fungi to tubeworms; in addition to this source, there's also an example from iNat (Pileolaria).
The plot thickens . . . can you share references?
I am a child in these matters, but https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/field/Mycobank%20%23/18541 above, records Serpula as a fungal genus.
I found Pileolaria at https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/97265
and Leptonema at https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/96052
I don't know if the routes by which these fungal genera are mapping to the tubeworms are related. I understand that interkingdom homonyms are pretty common at the genus level. We at EOL have Leptonema in the vascular plants, bacteria and insects!
Hi!
Thanks for helping to make existing biotic interaction data easier to find and access!
I was just looking at your GloBI indexed record at https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?interactionType=interactsWith&sourceTaxon=Spirobranchus%20giganteus&targetTaxon=Bambusa and I was wondering if this might be a homonym issue. I cannot find it at the level of the species name, Serpula gigantea, provided by the source, but Serpula does appear as a genus in both Metazoa and Fungi.
https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/field/Mycobank%20%23/18541
This association record is from 1906, but it is very far inland and while I wouldn't put it past a tubeworm to grow on a mangrove in the intertidal, it seems unlikely that one should be found on bamboo in the reported locality .
This search suggests there may be a few synonym relationships mapping fungi to the tubeworms, though I don't know that they're all via Serpula.
https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?interactionType=interactsWith&sourceTaxon=Serpulidae&targetTaxon=Tracheophyta