Seaside centipede lichen (Heterodermia sitchensis) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Seaside Centipede Lichen (Heterodermia sitchensis) in Canada COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Seaside Centipede Lichen Heterodermia sitchensis in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Authorities Contacted
- Information Sources
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Information Sources
- Biographical Summary of Report Writer
- Collections Examined
- Appendix 1. Known collections of the North American endemic macrolichen
Endangered 2006
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2006. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the seaside centipede Lichen Heterodermia sitchensis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 28 pp.
Previous reports
COSEWIC 2000. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the seaside centipede Heterodermia sitchensis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 28 pp.
Goward, T. 1996. COSEWIC status report on the seaside centipede Heterodermia sitchensis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 1-33 pp.
Production note
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Trevor Goward and Kenneth G. Wright for writing the update status report on the seaside centipede lichen, Heterodermia sitchensis in Canada. The report was contracted to Trevor Goward by Environment Canada and was overseen and edited by René Belland, Co-chair (Mosses and Lichens), COSEWIC Plants and Lichens Species Specialist Subcommittee.
Prior to 2006 the English name used for this species was seaside centipede Heterodermia sitchensis.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-953-3215
Fax: 819-994-3684
COSEWIC E-mail
COSEWIC website
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur l’hétérodermie maritime (Heterodermia sitchensis) au Canada – Mise à jour.
Cover illustration
Seaside centipede lichen -- Habit (from Goward 1984), provided by the author.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2006
Catalogue No. CW69-14/40-2006E-PDF
ISBN 0-662-43300-9
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