An Investigation on North Adana (Turkey) Myxomycetes

Abstract

The myxobiota of northern Adana provinces was investigated on various occasions in the period from 2010 to 2013. As a result of field and laboratory studies we identified 54 species belonging to six ordo, ten familia and twenty genera. Three species (Hemitrichia montana (Morgan) T. Macbr., Physarum psittacinum Ditmar, and Symphytocarpus herbaticus Ing) were recorded for the first time from Turkey. 45 species were collected in field, 4 species were developed in moist chamber culture and 5 species appeared in both natural habitat and moist chamber culture in the laboratory. Morphological, chorological and ecological characteristics of identified species were revealed and discussed in comparison with the support of relevant literature. Fruiting bodies and microscopic structures photographs belonging to new record samples were taken with light microscopy and scanning electron microscope (SEM).