your indexed records for https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1106631

[jhammock]

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

[jhpoelen]

@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 ([email protected]) ?
https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1106631

[jhammock]

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).

[jhpoelen]

The plot thickens . . . can you share references?

[jhammock]

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!