BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Dermatocarpon moulinsii
shag-belly stippleback
| Scientific Name: | Dermatocarpon moulinsii (Mont.) Zahlbr. | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | shag-belly stippleback | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Esslinger, T.L. and R.S. Egan. 1995. A sixth checklist of the lichen-forming, lichenicolous, and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist 98(4): 467-549. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Lichen | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | DERMMOU | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G4 (Jan 2025) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S2? (Apr 2019) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Red | ||||||||||
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| Global Habitat Comments: | Dermatocarpon moulinsii grows on a variety of rock types in various communities such as forests, woodlands, shrublands, grasslands, and cliffs, often in the shade (CLH 2025). | ||||||||||
| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | Range extent was estimated using herbarium specimens collected between 1994 and 2025 (GBIF 2025, CLH 2025). | ||||||||||
| Disjunct, more common elsewhere: | N | ||||||||||
| Peripheral, major distribution elsewhere: | N | ||||||||||
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| Global Information Author: | Johnson, J. (2025) | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Jan 06, 2025 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
Consortium of Lichen Herbaria. 2025. https://lichenportal.org/portal/index.php (accessed 2025). |
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Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.
Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2025. Species Summary: Dermatocarpon moulinsii. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 10, 2026).