“…Studies by various authors (e.g. Bell, 1974;Deguchi, 1984;Bednarek-Ochyra et al, 1999;Blockeel et al, 2007Blockeel et al, , 2009aOchyra et al, 2008a,b;Ellis et al, 2011aEllis et al, ,b, 2012aEllis et al, ,b, 2013aBednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra, 1998,b,c, 2013Ochyra & van Rooy, 2013) have revealed that most of them are distinct and well defined taxa, which have nothing in common with B. crispula. As a result of critical taxonomic studies in the last two decades, no fewer than three new species of Bucklandiella were described from New Zealand (Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra, 1996, 2011, two reported as new (Blockeel et al, 2008;Ellis et al, 2011b) and one reinstated as a good species (Ellis et al, 2011b Campylopus pilifer is one of the commonest species of the genus in sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean (Gradstein & Sipman, 1978;Frahm, 1985a;O'Shea, 2006).…”