NOTES Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 42, No. 2, 244-246, 2006 Copyright 2006 College of Arts and Sciences western USA (Rauschert 1964; Chen 1999). University of Puerto Rico, Mayagu¨ez Additionally, M. arenaria was reported from sandy soil from Cienfuegos and Montanegra arenaria Guantánamo in Cuba by Kreisel (1971) and Minter et al. (2001) reported the same taxon (Agaricaeceae, Basiodiomyocota), in Cuba under the name M. radiosa. There a New Record for Puerto Rico are no other known reports of this fungus from the Caribbean. ÁNGEL M. NIEVES-RIVERA1,* AND MARY While accompanying a paleontological CATHERINE AIME.21Department of Marine survey team to El Rayo Formation Ј Ј Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box (18°01.640 N, 66° 55.571 W, 100 m in eleva- 9013, Mayagüez, PR 00681-9013. 2USDA- tion; Late Cretaceous in age) in eastern ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Labora- Sabana Grande (Martínez Colón 2003), one tory, Bldg. 011A, Rm. 319, BARC-West, 10300 of us (AMNR) found several specimens of Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705. M. arenaria that are herein reported as a
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[email protected] classified as subtropical dry forest (dry- volcanic-sedimentary-limestone) according to the Holdrige system and the new map- ABSTRACT.—The euagaric Montagnea arenaria ping system (Helmer et al. 2002). (Basidiomycota) is reported from a dry region of southwestern Puerto Rico. This is a new record for DNA extraction, amplification, and sequence Puerto Rico, and only the second record of this fun- analysis.—Sequences were obtained from gus in the Caribbean.