Toby Spribille, lichenologist. Studying lichens of northwest North America, with special emphasis on boreal phytogeography and the flora of Alaska and the Yukon. Based in Graz, Austria and Missoula, Montana.

IPNI standard form: T.Sprib.

Address (2012):

Division of Biological Sciences

University of Montana

32 Campus Drive

Missoula, MT 59812 U.S.A.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 43 taxon names authored by Toby Spribille

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Schmull, M. & Spribille, T. 2005. Schaereria dolodes (Nyl. ex Hasse) Schmull & T.Sprib.: a second corticolous species in the genus. Lichenologist 37: 527–533. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282905015264 Reference page. 
• Spribille, T. & Tønsberg, T. 2007. Mycoblastus marginatus, a new synonym for M. affinis (Mycoblastaceae, lichenized Ascomycota). Mycotaxon: The International Journal of Fungal Taxonomy and Nomenclature 100: 105–107. Cybgerliber Reference page. 
• Spribille, T., Björk, C.R., Ekman, S., Elix, J.A., Goward, T., Printzen, C., Tønsberg, T. & Wheeler, T. 2009. Contributions to an epiphytic lichen flora of northwest North America: I. Eight new species from British Columbia inland rain forests. The Bryologist 112(1): 109–137. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-112.1.109 JSTOR ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Crespo, A., Kauff, F., Divakar, P.K., Del Prado, R., Pérez-Ortega, S., Amo de Paz, G., Ferencova, Z., Blanco, O., Roca-Valiente, B., Núñez-Zapata, J., Cubas, P., Argüello, A., Elix, J.A., Esslinger, T.L., Hawksworth, D.L., Millanes, A.M., Molina, M.C., Wedin, M., Ahti, T.T., Aptroot, A., Barreno, E., Bungartz, F., Calvelo, S., Candan, M., Cole, M.S., Ertz, D., Goffinet, B., Lindblom, L., Lücking, R., Lutzoni, F., Mattsson, J.-E., Messuti, M.I., Miądlikowska, J., Piercey-Normore, M., Rico, V.J., Sipman, H.J.M., Schmitt, I., Spribille, T., Thell, A., Thor, G., Upreti, D.K. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2010. Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence. Taxon 59(6): 1735–1753. DOI: 10.1002/tax.596008 JSTOR ResearchGate Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Schmitt, I., Fankhauser, J.D., Sweeney, K., Spribille, T., Kalb, K. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2010. Gyalectoid Pertusaria species form a sister-clade to Coccotrema (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota) and comprise the new lichen genus Gyalectaria. Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology 1(1): 75–83. DOI: 10.1080/21501201003631540 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Spribille, T., Pérez-Ortega, S., Tønsberg, T. & Schirokauer, D. 2010. Lichens and lichenicolous fungi of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Alaska, in a global biodiversity context. The Bryologist 113(3): 439–515. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-113.3.439 . JSTOR . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Lumbsch, H.T., Ahti, T.T., Altermann, S., De Paz, G.A., Aptroot, A., Arup, U., Bárcenas-Peña, A., Bawingan, P.A., Benatti, M.N., Betancourt, L., Björk, C.R., Boonpragob, K., Brand, A.M., Bungartz, F., Caceres, M.E.S., Candan, M., Chaves, J.L., Clerc, P., Common, R.S., Coppins, B.J., Crespo, A., Dal-Forno, M., Divakar, P.K., Duya, M.V., Elix, J.A., Elvebakk, A., Fankhauser, J.D., Farkas, E., Ferraro, L.I., Fischer, E., Galloway, D.J., Gaya, E., Giralt, M., Goward, T., Grube, M., Hafellner, J., Hernández, J.E., Herrera-Campos, M.A., Kalb, K., Kärnefelt, I., Kantvilas, G., Killmann, D., Kirika, P.M., Knudsen, K., Komposch, H., Kondratyuk, S.Y., Lawrey, J.D., Mangold, A., Marcelli, M.P., Mccune, B.P., Messuti, M.I., Michlig, A., Miranda-González, R., Moncada, B., Naikatini, A., Nelsen, M.P., Øvstedal, D.O., Palice, Z., Papong, K.B., Parnmen, S., Pérez-Ortega, S., Printzen, C., Rico, V.J., Plata, E.R., Robayo, J., Rosabal, D., Ruprecht, U., Allen, N.S., Sancho, L.G., De Jesus, L.S., Vieira, T.S., Schultz, M., Seaward, M.R.D., Sérusiaux, E., Schmitt, I., Sipman, H.J.M., Sohrabi, M., Søchting, U., Søgaard, M.Z., Sparrius, L.B., Spielmann, A.A., Spribille, T., Sutjaritturakan, J., Thammathaworn, A., Thell, A., Thor, G., Thüs, H., Timdal, E., Truong, C., Türk, R., Umaña-Tenorio, L., Upreti, D.K., Van den Boom, P., Rebuelta, M.V., Wedin, M., Will-Wolf, S., Wirth, V., Wirtz, N., Yahr, R., Yeshitela, K., Ziemmeck, F., Wheeler, T.B. & Lücking, R. 2011. One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity. Phytotaxa 18: 1–127. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1 . Magnolia Press (PDF) Reference page. 
• Spribille, T., Goffinet, B., Klug, B., Muggia, L., Obermayer, W. & Mayrhofer, H. 2011. Molecular support for the recognition of the Mycoblastus fucatus group as the new genus Violella (Tephromelataceae, Lecanorales). The Lichenologist 43(5): 445–466. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282911000478 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Spribille, T., Klug, B. & Mayrhofer, H. 2011. A phylogenetic analysis of the boreal lichen Mycoblastus sanguinarius (Mycoblastaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) reveals cryptic clades correlated with fatty acid profiles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(3): 603–614. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.021 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Spribille, T. & Muggia, L. 2013. Expanded taxon sampling disentangles evolutionary relationships and reveals a new family in Peltigerales (Lecanoromycetidae, Ascomycota). Fungal Diversity 58(1): 171–184. RLL List # 230 / Rec.# 34401 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1007/s13225-012-0206-5 RLL Reference page. 
• McCune, B., Rosentreter, R., Spribille, T., Breuss, O. & Wheeler, T. 2014. Montana Lichens: An Annotated List. Monographs in North American Lichenology 2: 1–183. Northwest Lichenologists, Corvallis. ISBN 0-9790-7371-5 Reference page. 
• Spribille, T., Resl, P., Ahti, T., Pérez-Ortega, S., Tønsberg, T., Mayrhofer, H. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Molecular systematics of the wood-inhabiting, lichen-forming genus Xylographa (Baeomycetales, Ostropomycetidae) with eight new species. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 37(1): 1–87. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Resl, P., Schneider, K., Westberg, M., Printzen, C., Palice, Z., Thor, G., Fryday, A., Mayrhofer, H. & Spribille, T. 2015. Diagnostics for a troubled backbone: testing topological hypotheses of trapelioid lichenized fungi in a large-scale phylogeny of Ostropomycetidae (Lecanoromycetes). Fungal Diversity 73(1): 239–258. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-015-0332-y . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Moncada, B., McCune, B.P., Farkas, E., Goffinet, B., Parker, D., Chaves, J.L., Lőkös, L., Nelson, P.R., Spribille, T., Stenroos, S.K., Wheeler, T.B., Yánez-Ayabaca, A., Dillman, K., Gockman, O.T., Goward, T., Hollinger, J., Tripp, E.A., Villella, J., Álvaro-Alba, W.R., Arango, C.J., Cáceres, M.E.S., Coca, L.F., Printzen, C., Rodríguez, C., Scharnagl, K., Rozzi, R., Soto-Medina, E.A. & Yakovchenko, L.S. 2017. Pseudocyphellaria crocata (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) in the Americas is revealed to be thirteen species, and none of them is P. crocata. The Bryologist 120(4): 441–500. RLL List # 251 / Rec.# 39708 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-120.4.14 Reference page. 
• Coppins, B.J., Kashiwadani, H., Moon, K.-H., Spribille, T. & Thor, G. 2021. The genera Brianaria (Psoraceae) and Micarea (Pilocarpaceae) in Japan, with reports on other interesting species in Asia. The Lichenologist 53(1): 35–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282920000468 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Links

• Toby Spribille's Homepage
• "More Than a Century After the Gold Rush, Mining an Historical Park’s Lichen Diversity" (see Discussion Page)
• "A new claim to fame: B.C.'s a lichen hotbed"
• "Inventory Turns Up Hundreds of New Lichen Species" (interview on Alaska Public Radio)